Knowing God

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What is your greatest aspiration in life?

For the Apostle Paul, it was to know Christ…not just theologically, but experientially. He was willing to count all of his successes in life as a loss in the pursuit of God.

In our sensational world, sports, entertainment, food, friends, recreation, and social media, are stealing our appetite for God. For many people, the idea of knowing the invisible God seems boring, fanatical, impossible, and inferior, compared to other pursuits.

But getting to know God is the noblest pursuit on earth. The self-existent, self-sufficient, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and eternally existent God created us to know Him and to have relationship with Him. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways are higher than our ways. Yet He wants to manifest Himself to us. Getting to know Him is far from boring. It is more than just an academic study. It’s a dynamic, personal, fulfilling, sanctifying, and rewarding pursuit that does not happen by chance.

God wants to manifest Himself to every seeker through the Word of God, through the power of His Resurrection, and through the crucible of suffering. Personal devotions and ministry service, trials and trauma, temptations and inadequacies are some of life’s classrooms in which we get the best opportunities to know God in more personal dimensions.

To the degree that we are pressed into the mold of Christ’s death, the intimacy of our knowledge of God proportionally increases. In contrast, our capacity to know God is thwarted by our indulgence in the temporal pursuits of this life.

God is calling us to an elevated existence that comes by knowing Him, and produces stability, tranquility, dignity, and virtue.

Psalm 16:11 punctuates the rewards of knowing God. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

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