Believing and Knowing God

In any friendship or relationship, we always put lots of effort in knowing the other party. We spend hours talking and getting to know each other. Even after spending large amount of time, would not know someone 100 percent. A good example is a husband and wife relationship. After all these years of knowing my wife, there are still new things that I am learning of her everyday.

Many of us can openly claim that we believe in God and we believe that He died for us and salvation is only through Jesus Christ. That is good but the question is how much we know of our God who is so willing to give His life for us so that we may have life.

I realize that there is a fundamental difference between believing God and knowing God. We believe God the day when we accepted Him as our personal Savior. We begin to know God as we begin to spend time reading His Word and seeking Him. To know someone, there is an investment that need to be made and TIME is the greatest investment.

The Bible says that our God has given us a heart to know Him. Jeremiah 24:7 says "I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart." Paul in Philippians 3:10 says that his supreme goal was to "know Him". How about us today?

All of us who are believers are given a heart to know God. The question is how are we cultivating it? In order for a friendship to grow and stay alive, the two people must spend time together. This is also very true when it comes to our relationship with the Lord: We have to make time to know Him more and more! Psalms 9:10 says "Those who know Your name will trust in You, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek You"

Let's spend time to know HIM more and more.!!!!

Be Blessed.