Carolina Baptist Church, Andalusia
My son, Ethan, came to me one night asking for help with his math homework. It was sixth-grade math word problems. After staring at the problems for several minutes, I told him to go ask his mother. Thirty-six years have passed since sixth grade. I haven’t worried too much about those problems until now.
So go our understanding of and personal relationship with God. Time slips by without attention to fellowship with God through His Word. Before we know it, the trueness of knowing God has become diminished simply because we chose not to spend the time needed to experience a close understanding of our heavenly Father.
Now we are faced with presenting what we know about God to a lost world. Many Christians make futile attempts to explain God to others honestly because they have forgotten who He really is. Though math grows more complicated with each step, we must understand that the act of salvation is simple and complete. But the act of growing in the knowledge and instruction of the Lord is an ongoing process that must be practiced.
How do we Christians explain to an agnostic who God is? How do we evangelize the next generation if we have failed to know God ourselves? We have been called to go with the greatest knowledge ever exposed to man, the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
God’s Word teaches us: “Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear” (1 Pet. 3:15). Our hope is still Jesus Christ and Him alone! We can change our church’s name, entertain or completely overhaul our format for worship. But if we do not truly know the hope that only Christ can give, then we are giving others false hope.
May we learn more about Him. May we truly know the God of creation, redemption and eternal satisfaction.
Oh and by the way, with a little time and effort, I was able to help my son with his math! Makes me wonder what I could do with a little more effort toward helping others to know my God.
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