We human beings do like to learn things at least I hope we do. We often hear the old adage, "knowledge is power!" I guess it can be of sorts, but it also comes with a great responsibility as well sometimes.
Sometimes we find ourselves accumulating vast amounts of knowledge that doesn't really matter in the long run and we call that trivia. We call somethings trivial because that knowledge has no real impact on a person's life.
There is nothing trivial about our knowledge of God. We must make sure that the knowledge that we have of God is the right knowledge. We must make sure that we have a proper relationship and intimacy with the Lord. Just having head knowledge of God will not suffice. We must know Him.
Sometimes we read our Bibles, memorize Scripture, and say a prayer before we eat and we think we are in good standing with God. In order to know God we must first believe that He exist. That is always a good start. We must have knowledge of Him and we can obtain that from reading the Bible which is His Word.
We must also have a personal relationship with Him as well and that is only possible through having received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. It is Jesus Christ that reconciles us sinners back to the Father through His shedding of His blood on the Cross. We must realize that we are sinners and need a Savior. We must receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior for there is no other Name under Heaven in which people must be saved by.
We ought to praise Him for all that He has done for us. We ought to worship Him in Spirit and Truth. The Lord is worthy of our worship and praise. The Lord desires us to have a personal and intimate relationship with Him and not just head knowledge. The Lord wants our hearts and our lives.
He wants to be the main focus of our lives. Do we know Him in a personal loving way?
The Lord is our Rock. The Lord wants us to come boldly to the throne of grace and know Him. He wants an intimacy with us that will be far greater than any other relationship that we have. The Lord loves us with a deep unconditional love. His desire is for us to love Him with abandon.
I am reminded of what Psalm 95 says when it comes to knowing who the Lord is and expressing our hearts of gratitude by worshiping our Lord and King.
Psalm 95
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice,
8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
The Lord urges us to come to Him with an opened and humbled heart. We must come to the Lord through Jesus Christ. He is worthy of our praise, worship, and devotion.
Let us give our hearts and our entire being to the Lord Jesus and live for Him. May we worship Him and cling to Him for HE is wonderful and Awesome.
Lord,
We thank You for all that You have done for us.
Help us to know You more by reading Your Word.
Holy Spirit help us to not forget what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
Thank You Lord for loving us.
Help us to love You more and Help us to love each other.
We praise Your Name.
In Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
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