Many people think that we know we know God is with men, by meeting only once and then finished. We can not equate it with us to know God. Because if so then we are principled people who are 10 years of following God will not experience spiritual growth.
We know God is gradually, continues to increase as the eagles that flew up and not stagnate. For if men do not experience the growth it will die. Maybe we think that the people of Israel are God's people they would know God, they are not the Jews know God?
Acts 9:5, Saul answered: "Who art thou, Lord?" He said: "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Many Christians who do not know his God, for example, the Apostle Paul went to Damascus, the middle of the journey the Lord appeared to him then the Lord said: "O Saul, why are you persecuting me? Saul asked: "Who are you?"
Saul was a smart, and smart, because if he is not smart, he might not be authorized to arrest and even kill all the Christians in Damascus by a teacher named Gamaliel. Gamaliel also includes an extraordinary person because it could give the order to kill even memorized the Torah may be outside the head. But why do people who seem perfectly just not know the Lord?
Sunguh sunguh KNOW GOD
Hosea 6:1-6 "Come, we will return to the LORD, for he who has been pounced on and that will heal us, who have been hit and that will bind us. He will revive us after two days, on the third day He will raise us, and we shall live in His presence. Let us know and try to truly know the Lord; He certainly appears like the dawn, He will come to us like rain, like rain at the end of the season that irrigates the earth. "What shall I do unto thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, O Judah? Kindness like the morning mist, and as the dew is gone early in the morning. Therefore I have crushed them with the prophets, I killed them with the words of my mouth, and my laws out like a light. For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Maybe we say that we already know God, but if we know Him earnestly not by what they say or what the book says. Maybe we think we already know enough about God with us to church every week? That's all it is not enough. Suppose a young couple who were engaged for almost 3 years but not married, why is that? This they did so they know each other more deeply the nature of good and bad from their partner before entering into married life.
There are people who say that he had known even to follow the Lord was 10 years.
But from the first to have up to 10 years at his prayers just 10 minutes. That means he is not experiencing growth and have no taste thirst. If we know God like that then do not be surprised if when we worship we will feel tired or bored.
STRONG AND ACTING
Daniel 11:32, And the people are wicked to the Agreement will apply until the apostate dibujuknya with smooth words, but people who know their God will display strength and take action. This book was written during a very difficult situation, but people who know their God is strong. Who is able to survive and act? Only those who know God can truly survive in the face of difficult circumstances.
Thus the knowledge of God we need to look back, do not we feel satisfied that we are 30 years or even more then we already know God remarkable. If you feel up there alone introduction to God then, or later if the Antichrist comes closer then our faith to be rocking, for many Christians will be lapsed and can not stand.
II Peter 1:2-3, Grace and peace to smother you by the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Because of His divine power has granted to us everything that is useful for a virtuous life by the knowledge of Him who called us by His glorious power, and magic.
Sometimes we have to go through something unpleasant or uncomfortable. Such as toll road highways, but there are also signs posted warning that some have deliberately set up to make us alert and be careful that we do not have an accident. God sometimes allows us to experience life inconvenience but an inconvenience for the purpose of it is not to wreck our lives but it aims to save us from the spiritual accidents. Do we grumble when we experience discomfort.
Trial that we experience may be large but the Lord Jesus is greater than the trials that we experience. This secret is not known by the world because they do not know and do not believe in Jesus. However berhagialah people who believe in God. When we follow God we might be tempted, persecuted and even insults, but it's where our faith is tested and we can see the power of God working miraculously through the trial that we experience during mengiring him.
How can so we can know God more seriously? By reading the Bible every day even though it may be only one chapter each day, but embedded in our hearts and we are doing rather than 10 articles at a time but did not become rhema in our lives. We do what we have read and reflect on what we read then we would know Him more deeply.
Luke 24:13-16, the same day two of his disciples went to a village named Emmaus, which is located approximately seven miles from Jerusalem, and they talked about everything that has happened. As they were conversing and exchanging ideas, Jesus himself came up to them, then walked along with them. But there is something blocking their eyes, so that they can not know Him.
They can not recognize as such because at that time there was a "hardness of heart membrane" which prevents their eyes so that they can not see that that goes along with them is Jesus. They were out of the way to Emmaus is a proof that they have a hardness of heart or disappointment
Both men were disciples of Jesus, but during the trip they could not see Jesus, although Jesus continues to preach the gospel during their trip.
Luke 34: 31-35, when it opened their eyes and they know Him, but He vanished from their midst. And they said one to another: "Did not our heart burning, when He speaks to us in the middle of the road and when he explained the Scriptures to us?" And they arose and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven disciples. They were gathered together with their friends. They said i tu: "Behold, the Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon." And the men were told what had happened on the road and how they know Him when He broke the bread.
They are a brave step and all the circumstances they are also changed when they saw Jesus and spirit them back fiercely. God's will that we are impassioned to serve and witness to God wherever we are so we can know God more deeply.
KNOW MORE MEANING OF GOD
The more we know God means that God's character is also growing in our lives. For those who may not know Christ does not have the character of Christ in his life so that we do not need to tell others that we know God for our actions speak louder than our words. Changes that occur in our lives will make people wonder and so it's easier to say that the cause of my life was changed because of Christ in my life and because of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.
Get to know our Lord more dearly so that we can experience the incredible life change. Remember, our actions speak louder than our words. Amen!
Sources: Church News January 3, 2010
