Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Dothan
A few years back a University of California, San Diego, report titled “How Much Information?” calculated that Americans take in at least 34 gigabytes of information and 100,000 words each day through television, radio, text messages and the Internet. Furthermore information and human knowledge is doubling every 13 months and IBM forecasts a day when information will double every 12 hours. That’s a lot of information.
With the increase of information comes the risk of missing the most important information of all — information about the eternal things. Jesus said in John 17:3, “And this is eternal life: that they know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
Many people today have much knowledge and information about God. In fact studies have repeatedly shown that most Americans believe in God. Yet there is a vast difference between knowing of God, having information about God and knowing God personally. And that difference makes all the difference in the world and in your eternity.
The Bible teaches that we must go beyond simply knowing about God to individually receiving Christ. In other words our knowledge about Christ must lead to a transforming, personal relationship with Him. I can’t receive Him for you and you can’t receive Him for me, but as John said, “But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12).
Jesus died on the cross for our sins, not so we could know about Him or even know about His love for us. Jesus died on the cross so we could go beyond just information about Him and His love to a real, personal and dynamic relationship with Him.
If you have never moved beyond information about Christ to a relationship with Christ, call on Him today as your personal Savior. “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Rom. 10:13).
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