One of my goals as stated in a previous post is to get to know my Lord and Saviour better. After completing "The Enemy Within" I have decided to revisit that goal, even expound upon it. Because although it is a commendable goal I don't think it quite goes far enough and it seems to be too much focused on myself rather than on Him. Not to mention it even reads like a too often quoted Christian cliche. So not only have I decided to revisit that particular goal,
but I have also decided to rephrase it and give it a different point of view, so to speak. I have decided to rephrase it thus: To get to know the Lord better and to be known by Him.
To be technical Jesus already "knows" me; if he didn't than He would cease to be God. So then what does to "know" truly mean? Can Jesus simply choose to not "know" someone? Can the word "know" be interchanged with the word "love"? Maybe. Probably. Actually, I'm not sure. What I do know is that even the demons know Jesus, but they certainly don't love him. I suppose the same could be said of me. This is indeed a frightful course of thought and it is scaring me.
If I truly love the Lord than I would dread disappointing Him. Further, I would know what would disappoint Him, because I would make it the primary goal of my life not only to love Him more but also to know Him more profoundly with every passing day. I wouldn't be satisfied with simply knowing what grieves Him I would literally sob out loud every time I sinned, for I would know that sin is what grieves the Lord. And what grieves Him should also grieve me. Deeply so.
There is only one way for me to get to know Jesus, the true lover of my soul more. That is, I must pray and meditate upon Him and His revealed word. I must also read commentaries, various translations and seek out different meanings to key words and phrases found in those various translations. I can never allow myself to become satisfied or complacent with my relationship with the Lord.
The goal, then, would cease to be "to know Him better" but instead it would be "to know Him better and to be known by Him".
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So how's that 6 pack coming, Craig? :)
You really have a way with words! I am enjoying catching up on the blog. When you get back, maybe you can take over my parenting column- you're much funnier than I am! :) Allie O.
This is a really deep thought. I do agree that we need to know God more. I also agree that if we really knew God and his love for us that we would truly weep after we have sinned. I do believe that God knows us though. He knows us through and through. In his word it states that he knows the very number of hairs on our head and that he has numbered our days even before we were born. In a way it takes some of the pressure off of trying to have a relationship with him. We already know that he knows what we are thinking at all times and he knows our inner being. To know him on the other hand should be our life's goal. Every day we should wake up and resolve to get to know him better. This is the hard part. This is where life gets in the way and we have to push through our human tiredness and weary body to get to our very soul which should be ecstatic to get to know our Saviour, Lord, and Friend.
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