I don’t think we realize how privileged we are to be a child of God. God has granted us a boldness that allows us to approach the throne not as servants or beggars but as a child. Can you imagine how free we would be if that knowledge of our relationship with God got from our brains to our hearts? We are the spiritual flesh of the highest God.
If you are a parent, think about your children for a minute. Think about how much love you have for your children and what heights you would climb to provide for them. If you are a good parent, then I assume there is nothing that you wouldn’t do for your children. You sacrifice your life for them if necessary, would take their sickness on yourself, and would help them succeed in any way that you could.
God is a million times better parent than any human, yet we doubt his care for us. He already died for us, took our sickness into his body, and promised us that he would take care of us. Why do we doubt him? The answer is simple, we don’t truly know him. If we knew him, then we would know what he would do. He would become predictable to us like our parents are.
Personal Example
For example, my mother is my best friend. I know what she will do before she does it because I have a relationship with her. I know her better than I know anyone else. The problem today is that we either don’t know God or only know him to a point. There is no intimate relationship with him. We don’t dwell consistently in his presence: instead, we visit there.
Knowing God
Did you know that when Jesus prayed for us in John 17, he states that eternal life is knowing God? The word used for knowing, is the same meaning in the Old Testament when a man knew his wife. It implies intimacy with God: becoming one with him. It is not enough that we merely believe in God or pursue the Christian walk to a point, but we need to seek to know God.
God is not just this source of power and holiness, but God is an individual. He has a personality, a character, a sense of humor, likes, and dislikes. He is a real being that we can get to know. What a beautiful honor that we dismiss. We would rather sit in front of the television or scroll on social media than sit in our closets with our loving Father.
Would We Know God?
A question that came to mind while writing this is; when we get to heaven, how many Christians would actually know God? If he was somehow able to turn off his glory, holiness, and love, and all we had to go by was his character, would we know God? Of course, those things are part of his character, but my point is that most of us do not intimately know God, and we wouldn’t recognize him if he could tone himself down.
God is a Living Being
I don’t think this is necessarily intentional on our part, but I don’t think we are being taught that you can truly know God. We are taught to believe in him but not to really know him. I have never thought about him as a “person” who I could intimately know, but the truth is, he is.
He is alive, loving, an individual, and desires us to know him. And when we come to know him, truly know him, and not just about him, that is when we will see victory and the manifestation of his power. Until then, we will be walking through this life living from one Holy Spirit-filled moment to the next. With everything between feeling like we are barely making it.
Seek God
I don’t know about you, but I have a deep desire to know God fully. To become one with him as Jesus was one (not being God but being in union with him). Walking in the same intimate relationship, authority, and power as Jesus, and truly walk in the relationship of Father and daughter as he desires. Don’t allow life or the devil to steal the best relationship we have ever been given on this earth. Put aside all distractions and hungrily seek his face.
You have said, seek my face. My heart says to you, Your face, Lord do I seek. Psalm 27:8
Referenced Verses: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+17&version=ESVhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+27%3A8&version=ESV
Randall Freeman says
PSALM 14:2 Reveals to us that God desires us to seek him. To know him is to love him, and spending time with him reveals to us how God is pleased with our intentions to fellowship with him on a higher level, praise his name Amen.
carrie says
So true!