FAITH CAPSULE: Dwelling in God is to know God.

1 John 3

Do you desire to dwell in the presence of God?
The desire to dwell in the presence of God demands to amend ways and doings. 
All that amends their way will walk in the knowledge of the will of God. Colossians 1:9-11 record prayer, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.” 
The prayer of Paul the apostle is worth constant meditation for all that desire to dwell in the presence of God. 
Walking in the word of God is doing the will of God. 
To know God is to be living in God.
Having been in the church for a long or having the ability to memorize and be conversant in quoting the word is not evidence of knowing God. 
Many know about God but do not know God to keep His word. 1 John 2:3 buttresses, “Now by this, we know that we know Him if we keep His commandments.”  
Talking about the commandment of God is not evidence of knowing God but keeping His commandment is evidence of knowing Him. 
1 John 2:4-6 states, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” 
The word of God is truth. 
God does not lie, and He will not look away from the manifestation of His word. 
In this world of challenge, there is no better place to abide but in the word of God. 
Determination is not what will make one dwell in the word.
Peter determined not to deny Jesus, but he denied Christ three times. 
However, the prayer of Jesus delivered Peter not to become a victim of denying Christ. Luke 22:32 records the prayer of Jesus for Peter, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”  When there is a desire to dwell in God, God will deposit what it takes. 
Word buttresses, “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in Him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” (1 John 3:24) 

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.