First Baptist Church, Arley
Do I know God? Is God present in my life in a real way? These are very important questions.
Recently I met with a man who had been raised in a church-going family and was fairly well-read concerning Scripture and spiritual things. However, some hard situations in his life began to move him to question if he truly knew God. He remembered from previous experiences how many godly people around him were able to gain strength, encouragement and perspective through their relationships with God during their hardships, but when faced with the need to do that himself he was at a loss. By the end of our conversation, this man had joyously entered into a relationship with God.
I was able to share with this man that he was not alone in not knowing God. In fact, the Bible tells us in Ephesians 2:12 that to be a man without Christ is to be a man without God in this world.
The reason why you must know Christ in order to know God is because Christ’s death on the cross was God’s means of taking the sin of the world away. It is because of sin that humanity is separated from God. Paul said in Romans 3:23, “for all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard.” Falling short of God’s standard means we have willingly sinned and gone against the purposes and commands given to us by God our Creator. It is this sin that separates us from God and knowing God. However, in 1 Peter 3:18, Peter said, “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God.”
Christ died to take away our sins and to pave a way that we might know God in a real way. The relationship with God that Christ made available on the cross is a free gift.
You can know God today. Right where you are you can call out to Him to save you. Acknowledge that you are a sinner, turn from sin and turn to Christ. Jesus said in John 17:3, “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
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