Knowing God

"Oh, continue Your loving kindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright in heart."
- Psalm 36:10

It is knowing who God is that will change your life. This is why I have taken our church through the attributes of God. It is not about who we think God is and our thoughts about God. It is about what the Scripture says. It is what God says about Himself in His Word. And this is what we find time and time again that King David discovers. It is always what he goes back to, who God is. What a great lesson for us to learn in our personal lives.

The Bible says our hearts are wicked and deceitful above all things (Jeremiah 17:9). The Scriptures are here to transform and renew us. They will transform our minds while God will change our hearts (Romans 12:2). It is being mindful and allowing the Lord to change you by His Spirit. It allows the Holy Spirit to illuminate His Word and bring it to our understanding because God is doing a work in us.

While on earth, we have trials. For the believer, God works through those things in our lives. He is preparing us to be in heaven. He is preparing us to go home. Think about it for a moment. What would heaven be like if we all went home to heaven as we are right now? We should ask the Lord to do His work. We should pray He changes us. We should desire to be that work of art, the masterpiece that God wants us to be.

God will chip away at our lives, and sometimes it hurts. This is why David’s life in the Scriptures is opened up to us to see. This was God’s man, and Jesus came through David’s lineage. Yet, he was human and full of failures. David knew, however, to turn to God for help. It is because David knew who God was and is, and who he was to God. This understanding is what makes all the difference in this life of sanctification. I pray that you know who God truly is to you today.

“A high view of the Bible, of course, results in a high view of God. One’s view of God is only as high as one’s view of Scripture.”
- C.H. Spurgeon