Knowing God

Knowing God, is like knowing people. I can truthfully say, that I know Pastor Flattery. Jon can say, I know Pastor Flattery, better than you. Why? Because he has known him longer than me, been closer to him than me, experienced him more than me. These are all true. The closer we are to someone the more we know about them and the more they know about us. God, on the other hand, knows everything about us, without us being close to Him because he is God. The scary part about that type of relationship is that even after knowing me, He (God) still loves me and desires to have fellowship with me. Sometimes from our position in the relationship, we don’t desire God as much as we should, or as much as He would desire us to.
Many Christians only know God from reading the scriptures and you can learn a lot that way, but that is not having fellowship or intimacy or closeness. I know God is with me all the time, but I don’t experience His closeness all the time or as much as I’d like.
The times I have experienced God and His presence have been life changing to say the least. I’ve experienced deliverance from drugs and alcohol abuse, deliverance from occult practices, I’ve experienced God as my healer, He has supernaturally supplied the needs of myself and my family. I have been blessed and touched by God in so many ways.
Now I know people who have experienced God, (the same God I’m talking about) in a totally different way, but just as personal. God is not a respecter of persons. God reveals Himself to those who truly believe that He is. And he rewards those that diligently seek Him. I fell, that I fall way short of the Patriarchs’ of the Bible, but I have a desire to know God as they did. A simple understanding and a trusting relationship, a knowing in my knower that He was and is and is to come. I have experienced God as He has revealed Himself in His word. Experience will hold on longer than knowledge alone. Experience has to line up with the revealed knowledge of God in His word.
I can know and find out everything I want to know about Pastor Flattery and Jon. But I’d rather know them, for myself and experience them for myself, and that is something nobody can take away from me. I have first hand knowledge and experience. I know for myself now, what is true.
Know God because He already knows you and loves you anyway. Be Blessed in Him.