Director of Missions
Carey Baptist Association
Do you really know God? Many people think they do when actually they only know “about” Him. There is far more to knowing God than merely having an intellectual knowledge of Him.
The first step to knowing God is to admit your need. Your faults, failures, bad habits and human conflicts all indicate that your need is critical. God calls these shortcomings sin. These are proof you are a sinner (Rom. 3:23).
Second acknowledge God’s solution. God loves you very much, and He proved it by what He did for you. His solution was to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to live the perfect life and then die the perfect death on the cross for your sins (Rom. 5:8).
Third accept God’s provision. God made sufficient provision for all your needs through Jesus Christ. As a sinner, you do not deserve this and there is nothing you can do to earn it. However, Jesus paid the price for you on the cross.
Therefore God offers this great salvation to you as a free gift (Eph. 2:8). Your part is to accept by faith what He has done for you and receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior (John 1:12).
To do so, act on the truth. “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Rom. 10:9). If you have never done this, then now is the time to come to know God through a personal relationship with Jesus.
A simple faith transaction is all that is necessary. Just direct your confession to the one and only, invisible yet ever present, God. He is eagerly waiting for you.
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