We believe there is a God but do we know Him.
How well do we know God or how much we desire to know Him?
For an exercise if you know a fellow person, your sibling or your spouse or a close friend really well (LETS CALL HIM, Darwin),
Compare your knowing God to the way you know Darwin…
So do you know about God as much as you know about Darwin?
Seek to know God
When we seek to know God, we realize that God is not playing hide and seek with us, but desires to make Himself known to us. Because He loves us.
His is an unconditional love for us each, individually.
How do we know people?
We speak to them, we hear them, and we keep communications.
The same works with God. We need to rather seek Him to know Him.
Prayers…
What is this? That’s (way 1) to know God.
In Prayers we communicate with God, we talk to Him, we hear Him…wait we never hear Him exclaimed Ryna, as she had said the same to her spiritual counsellor.
It’s just one way converse from me, God never talks, and He is silent.
He will talk replied the counsellor, have patience but practice first.
Don’t you practice hard each day for years till you become a pro tennis player or practice hard a skill like singing or writing till you can write or sing amazingly?
Prayers are the same for the humans and they are like human traits to be followed.
There will come a time continued the counsellor when the silence of God will have sound for your ears.
His words and whispers would be heard in His silence.
It’s when God and human will communicate even when they are both silent. Its then the words of God will be heard by your spiritual heart and not your human ears.
So find and know God in Prayers.
Build your friendship and fellowship with God by spending time with Him.
Prayers can be extended beyond your worshipping God before the altar or in your room in solitude.
Prayer can be talking to Jesus in your mind as you walk or travel to work, a mini converse of a few seconds when at work, college or at leisure.
He is Omnipresent, time and space do not bound the maker of the very cosmic features.
Holy Bible…
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:4
God speaks through the Bible, this is the book of promises for us humanity till the end of all times.
Know God and feel His nature, His will for us, it’s all in the Holy Bible.
If you eat food to survive each day, your spiritual survival also needs to be fed by the ‘Word of God’, food for your soul and conscience.
Bible is the road map leading to the very presence of the divinity of Jesus.
Meditation and Contemplation …
We were each born individually and not in groups thus there is to be a one to one with their Creator.
Our life is for what? What is the purpose? What happens after death? Why should I know God, is it because He is my Creator?
All these questions make us go deeper in contemplation trying to seek the answers and meaning from the Creator.
Meditating and contemplating involves quieting the mind, focusing inward, and practicing mindfulness.
This leads to a sense of peace and an awareness of the divine presence within oneself and around.
Knowing God As Christians
It was love alone that had Jesus die for our sins.
He answered, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Luke 10: 27
Not loving means not Knowing God.
The very core of knowing and loving God is manifested in how they treat others in their daily lives, their family members, friends, work colleagues and even strangers.
Being Christian is being like Christ, making one to see the image of Jesus in others, even if their behavior and act go against them.
Serving the needy and the down trodden.
Mother Teresa now known as Saint Teresa when served and nursed the sick and the homeless on the streets would often say that she would see ‘Jesus’ in them as she served them.
Praise and Worship…
There is power in the name of Jesus’, yes that’s true and also is true that “praising God is twice praying”.
Praise Him for He loves us un-conditionally, not holding back or judging us with our sins.
Praising God, through singing, can be a more profound and complete act of prayer and worship.
Spiritual Teachings…
Listening to Spiritual teachings and faith discussions and podcast is a profound method to know God.
Persons of deep faith find it evangelizing and making it known to others the will of God and to those with less faith, about Jesus, aiding them in their journey of knowing God.
This can be a significant method of understanding the faith and God’s will from these anointed persons of faith.
Listening to Bible and faith based teachings on YouTube or podcast by faith scholars and preachers is a good way to know God and His will for our life.
“Know God Through Nature"
Observing the wonders of Nature, from a sunset to the detailed design of a flower, the changing weathers, the beauty, and the Nature’s gift of our survival needs like food, water and air makes us awe and wonder of God’s majesty, beauty and power.
Many a saints and seers of God have spoken of finding the presence of God in Nature.
Yes God is in His Creation. Every leaf, every drop of water, every moment we breathe speaks of a Creator.
The Holy Bible says that man was made in the image and likeness of God, a reflection of God.
The special creature of the Creator that can know Him, yet we seek not to find Him.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, goes the saying. This should hold strong when knowing God.
God loves us dearly, there was oneness of God and Man, as God made man in His own image and likeness.
Man lived with God before Man in Adam misused his freewill to part with God.
God treasured those moments spend with Man and thus wanted that Man re-live those moments again with God.
God worked to let that happen when He gave His only son in Jesus to die for our sins and wrongdoings and make man become one with God again.
God had it all spread and given to us, all the above ways for Man to get back with God again.
Man has to live a life to know God, living his earthly moments for a place in eternity with God.
God is waiting for us with love…
Synopsis … Find and Share with someone you think need it to Know God. Make that change in someone’s life.
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Yes, just thank God for His mercy and forgiveness lest we be in damnation, all for our deeds.