Want to Know God?

Valley Grande Baptist Church

Although we live in a culture that is skeptical about spiritual things, many people feel that there has to be something more to life than just the things that we see. In addition to the physical, all of us also experience the emotional and spiritual dimensions of life. 

Few people question that emotional side of life. None of us has ever seen love yet few people would doubt that love exists. Life without love would be a bleak experience. Most people readily acknowledge the emotional component of life even though they have never seen love or anger or fear. Although they have never seen emotion, they have little doubt that the emotional part of life is real because they have seen the effects of love, anger or fear.

Life also has a spiritual component that many people either deny or ignore. Yet according to the Bible, God is the Creator of all that exists including us. God created us because He desires to have a relationship with us. Because God is Spirit, He created us with a spiritual side so that we could have a relationship with Him (John 4:24).

However, in order to have a relationship with God, we need God’s help because our spiritual side has been distorted by what the Bible calls sin. The Bible is clear that all are sinners (Rom. 3:23). Because we have sinned, we need God’s help to have a relationship with Him (Rom. 6:23). God provided the help that we need when His only Son, Jesus, died on the cross (Rom. 5:8). 

God wants a relationship with us and He has offered us a solution for the sin that blocks our relationship with Him. However, God’s solution for our sin problem is a gift that must be chosen. God wants a loving relationship with us. However, because love cannot be coerced, God gives us the capacity to accept or reject His loving offer of a relationship with Him (Rom. 10:9–10). 

If you want to know God, you must accept His offer of forgiveness. God promises in His Word that anyone who desires to know Him can know Him by accepting His forgiveness and His power to change those who turn to Him (Rom. 10:13).