Getting to know Him

Knowledge

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, - Ephesians 1.17-18

What does it mean to know God. What does it mean not to just know about Hum, but to really, well and truly know Him?

Paul's prayer here is that God would give us a spirit of wisdom and reveal to us the knowledge of himself. And then, as a result, our understanding of him would be enlightened.

The thing about knowing God is that because of our human limitations not a one of us could ever have any hope of knowing him. To a certain extent man can learn a lot about God, but really knowing him is a different matter. We cannot really get to know him without him acting to open that knowledge to us.

But he invites us know him. God wants us to know him. Paul prays that we would know God.

So how do we get to know someone?

The only way. We can get to know someone, I mean to really know someone, is for them to open up and for us to spend time with them. God has opened himself us, he wants us to know us better. Now it is up to us to spend time with him getting to know him.

What is our part? We talk to him. We read his word. We fellowship with others who know him. We are not going to get to know him better by spending time with the world.

He does his part. We have to ask ourselves if we do ours.