Knowing God..

Face to Face..

How can you know that God is God when you don't want to experience Him being God? He can't just be God to you just because everybody says so. There comes a time when you have to know that for yourself. How do you get to know God face to face...heart to heart? Trials and tribulations. Problems and tests. These may sound too painfully familiar but they are the gateway to truly getting to know God.

See, when you go through trials and tribulations that's when you get to see who your real friends are. That's when you even get to know who you really are: where you are weak and where you are strong. In the same way, when you are in trouble with God in heart, you get to know Him more and know yourself as well. How can you truly know that God is faithful without having to see Him being just that in your life? How can you contend against someone who stands against that when you have never seen God being faithful to you? You can never have a solid foundation to what you say you know if you haven't really experienced it. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen". Yes, totally true. But faith needs to be applied for it to work. "Faith without works on its own is dead." That means, you have to take that "substance" and put it into work so that it brings results that prove that the unseen is real. Even though you won't see God, He so desires for you to know Him, to know His power, His love and His presence. He wants us to know Him, and to do that, He wants us to tap into Him so we can come into contact with Him.

Our parents' faith is theirs, they have proofs for what they believe in. But do we have our personal experience with God? have we personally wrestled with God? If so, can we point at the wounds that prove that we've seen and touched Him? The Bible tells us that Jacob wrestled with God through the night until dawn and he thigh was injured. Since then He had a scar that proved his encounter with God. Even though the limping might have hurt, Jacob could testify with confidence that he had come into contact with God. That doesn't have to imply that you have to see God in flesh but you can see Him spiritually by having your spirit deeply confirm that you know Him. The pains we endure in our lives are the chances that God gives us so we can see Him. trials are the moment when we should really get excited because God then comes to show us who He really is to us. In the times when you don't know what to do, He wants to come in and be God, be the one who knows the way out of any situation.

John says " We proclaim to you what we have heard and seen, so that you also may have fellowship with us..." 1John1:3. What do you proclaim? Do you proclaim what you've heard people proclaim? Can you testify to what you proclaim? If you know you have nothing to say that is a testimony to who God is in your life, there's still a chance. You can experience God! Oh How He wants us to allow Him to show Himself to us! He desires more than anything to become so real to us such that we can testify with confidence and no doubts. He wants us to know Him face to face, and that only comes through a heart that seeks Him truly. When you seek God deeply and truly, He never ceases to stop revealing Himself to you. He gives you the desires of your heart just like He promised.

So, won't you allow yourself to experience God for who He really is today? He'll be waiting until you are ready to go deeper into Him.