My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
We need to take God seriously. This is where Christians fail; not taken God seriously enough. We seem to take him a bit for granted. Daniel 11:32 says that those that know their God shall be strong and do exploits.
The problem is that a lot of us want to be strong, we want to be able to do exploits but we fail to know God. There is a precursor to being able to do exploits which is “knowing God”. Do you know God?
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 says “and it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
This means to receive the blessings of God there is a pre-condition; to observe and to do according to what is written in the Word (bible).
My question to us today is this - what does it mean to know God? What does it mean to be intimate with God?
In the first chapter of Proverbs, we read that the fear God is the beginning of wisdom. To know God is to fear Him, to revere Him, to always obey Him and we will have the wisdom and knowledge to to exploits as His word will strengthen us.
How many of us make an effort to read their bible at least once a month? We must spend time in reading the bible. When we do this we have that special connection. We must a conscious effort to know Him really well so that we can do exploits.
