To know God; the one true desire that should be at the center of the human heart. We should want to restructure our lives in a way that shows that knowing God is our greatest pursuit. Knowing God is “the highest good out of which all other good flows.” This age isn’t about attaining great wealth or attaining tremendous knowledge. It is about knowing God and knowing Him intimately.
This knowledge of God isn’t about acquiring more information about him. We can know a lot of intimate details about someone’s life yet still be a stranger to them. The kind of knowing of which I speak comes only through relational intimacy, and this is only developed by a certain manner of life.
What are you willing to do or give up so you can know God more deeply?
There are things you can learn about God through the sermons you hear on a Sunday morning or even through the religious books that you read. These tools are good, helpful, and important, but they are secondary – they are not the primary way in which we know God. We know God through daily feasting on His word and through unceasing prayer. We know Him through the daily experiences we have; through our joys, difficulties, disappointments, and successes. If we ask God to reveal himself through these experiences; we’ll learn of Him, we’ll see him, and we’ll lay hold of him. What are you willing to do so that you can have a lifestyle that’s immersed in God?
David declared, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4
David declared that the one thing He desires is to know the Lord. But knowledge of God is not just a desire to have so he declared that he would spend all the days of his life pursuing this desire. David wanted to know God intimately. The word “know” in the Scripture is used as a euphemism for sex and intercourse: Adam knew his wife Eve and she became pregnant ( Genesis 4:1 ). Theological knowledge of God is good and is a part of the ‘knowing’ but it is an “intimate and experiential” knowledge of God that we are to spend our days pursuing. God used the word “know” to describe our relationship with him, a word that was used to describe an act in the closest union one can have with a person on the earth—a sexual relationship.
What lifestyle changes are you willing to make right now so you can know God more deeply?
Angelisa is a Jesus enthusiast, Worship leader & Christian youth leader. She considers herself to be the old-fashioned type of girl who loves spicy food and belly bottom laughter. Among her passions are singing, working with children, and encouraging others.