Weekly Devotional - May 18, 2012

"Oh, the depth of the riches of the
wisdom and knowledge of God!"

Romans 11:33 NIV

There's a lot I don't know. As a matter of fact, I don't even know what I don't know. And I've learned that the more I know the more I know I don't know.

I'm told that humans use very little of their brain capacity.  We could know much more than we do! If we don't even know what we could know, how could we ever completely know God?

Knowing God is not an event. You don't wake up one morning and have everything about him stored up in your mind as if you had studied and prepared for a history test. Knowing God is a journey.

Some things about him you learn as your study the Bible. The Bible is the record of God's revelation of himself through Jesus Christ, through his interaction with people throughout history, and through his natural creativity. If you want to know God you have to pick up the main resource. And you have to begin the journey of getting to know him through study and application.

Some things you learn through experience. In the process of living life you come to times when you need comfort and God is there to comfort you. Or you need courage and God is there to embolden you. Or you need strength and he is there to empower you. Or you need joy because life gets hard and God is there to lift you up spiritually and emotionally. Experience never trumps the truth of Scripture but through experience you often can more easily apply those truths. The Bible is the text; experience is the lab.

Your journey is already underway. You began this trip the day you were born. Some lessons have been unnoticed, like the way you have come to depend upon his oxygen for life. Some lessons are unexplainable, like the way he created this whole world. Some lessons are unforgettable, like how he saved you from sin. Pray that God will bring you along the path of knowing him.