KNOWING GOD BY EXPERIENCE

This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent - Jesus Christ. (John 17:3)

When Jesus said eternal life is knowing God - including God the Son, Jesus Christ - He did not mean that eternal life is knowing aobut God. He was not referring to someone who has read many books and attended numerous seminars about God. He was taking about a firshand, experiential knowlege. We come come to truly know God as we experience Him in and around our lives. Many peopel have grown up attending church and hearing about God all their lives, but ehy do not hve a personal, dynamic, growing relationship with God. They never hear His voice. They have no idea what God's will is. They do not encounter His love firsthand. They have no sense of divine purpose for their lives. They may know a lot about God, but they don't really know Him.

Merely knowing about God will leave you unsatisfied. Truly knowing God only comes through experience as He reveals Himself to you through His word and as you relate to Him. Throughout the Bible, we can see that God took the initiative to disclose Himself to people through their life events.

(EXPERIENCING GOD - Knowing and Doing THE WILL OF GOD, Henry & Richard Blackaby & Claude King)