Knowing God
If Knowledge is power, then the
knowledge of God gives the greatest power man can ever have.
I said that some
people call God and they do not even know Him.
Take this instance: If you bought
a phone wouldn't you rather have the manual read and know what you have bought,
than just operating it and making use of only a few functions of the phone. As
youths, you know that when you get a phone or any other gadget, the more of the
functions you know, the more you can personalize it and make it difficult for
others to operate. And for mothers, fathers and old people, they get big phones
like iPad, iPhone, Bb and all they use it for is to make phone calls, mgs, and
take pictures, and other vital functions are neglected and then you wonder why
they got that big phone in the first place and why not the ones they can easily
operate and still have the random functions they need? If you go deeper, you'll
find out that most of our parents get these high level phones they can't even
operate because they want to fit in with their friends, or because they have
the money to buy it. Note: You can get the most out of what you have only if
you know it well.
See, many Christians are like
this, they serve a God they do not know. You calling the name of someone
doesn't imply that you know that person. It takes a Long term, perpetual and
patient relationship with that person before you know him.
You shouldn't be a Christian
because you were born into a Christian home or by circumstance. You should be a
Christian by conviction, by knowledge, understanding what you were called for.
But how do you want to understand what you do not even know? Do not be that
person who gets a phone because he wants it, be that person that gets a phone
because he needs it. Being a Christian
by knowledge entails you knowing who you are, and you can't know who you are
without knowing who your God is because your identity lies in Him. Until you realize
your identity in Christ you cannot live that victorious life God wants you to
live. Take for instance: As a citizen of Nigeria and you KNOW your
constitutional rights, which not being detained over 24 hours is a part, would
you allow any officer to ride you over that right? Absolutely not. Such it is
in Christ, the more you know and understand what he has for you and your
heritage in Christ, you won't allow any demon ride you over. But because you
don't know, you are vulnerable and you open yourself to being taken advantage
of, all because of your ignorance. Little wonder the devil uses and deals with
you as he wishes. Those who know their
God shall do exploits.
The mind of man is deep, a
lifetime is not enough to know and understand it. If man is like that, how deep
do you think He that created man will be? Wao! And everything in that depth is
kept there for you. How do you want to know what is in that depth if you do not
go into the depth.
1Cor. 2:9-12(But just as it is
written, “Things that no eye has
seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those
who love him.”
God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things,
even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except
the man’s spirit within him? So
too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not
received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we
may know the things that are freely given to us by God.)
How does the spirit want to reveal
this in depth identity of our which is sealed in Christ to us if we do not even
know Him? We want God to open himself to us but do not want to open ourselves
to him. Sometimes I just wonder what actually holds people from having that
expected relationship with God. This world keeps people away from the word. (
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly
rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor
height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8:38-39)
Many believers have forgotten
this, and have allowed minor, ethereal things to push them away from the love
of God.
It's high time you created a
relationship between you and your God, talk to him often and let him talk to
you. Trust me, nothing is so sweet and refreshing than having a good time out
with God.
(Ephesians 1:17-19) I pray that
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual
wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, since the eyes of your
heart have been enlightened –
so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his
glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the incomparable greatness of
his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense
strength.
May God bless You.
