FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself a reality check and determine if you are on the right ground with God

1 Corinthians 13
 
Knowing about God is not the same as knowing God. Knowing God is not in knowing to be a good worker in the church. Knowing God is not in being known as a constant church goer. Also being fluent in quoting the word of God is not an indication of knowing God. Many are entering into the presence of God but short of dwelling in His presence. Knowing God is having relationship with God. Ones that knows about God can possibly be constantly attending church but fall short giving God all the attention by behaving the word of God.
Can you sincerely check yourself if you do not know Him? Majority claims knowing God but very few actually walk in line of those that knows Him. If you do not keep His commandments, you do not know Him and cannot expect Him to relate to you when you have no relationship with Him.
The word identifies what it takes to claim knowing God in the book of 1John 2:3 when it declares that now by this we know that we know Him if we keep His commandments. What is the commandment that the Lord is talking about? Jesus specifically points out the commandments, when He stated,“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’This is the first and great commandment.And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”(Matthew 22: 37-40)Is there any way to hear it better than hearing from the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords? How possible it is for one that does not love is neighbor to love God? Love is not a word of the mouth but work from the heart. It is a sacrifice that often demands denying self. The apostle Paul points out the seriousness of having to love, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-2)One that loves as required by the commandments will live in heaven on earth. Let it be known to you this day that, it is impossible to be right with God if you are not right with man.Give yourself a reality check and determine if you are on the right ground with God and with man.
 
Prayer for today:Ask God for the grace to be a believer that loves in deed and in truth, not in mouth and false humility.