FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know God not just know about God.

Exodus 14

Knowing about God is not knowing God.
Knowing about God does not know God to be mindful of God and His attributes.
Knowing God is the evidence of giving self to live life by His word.
Seeking God diligently in His word is getting to know God. Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Seeking God to know Him demands to seek Him with all heart and soul.
Knowing God will have trust and hope in God at all times. 
Knowing about God will trust but not know to hope on God. 
Do you know God to trust and hope in Him?
Many know about God to pray before Him but not able to patiently wait in hope for God’s answer.
Jeremiah 17:7 identifies trusting and hoping on God to claim the blessing of God, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Knowing about God is not knowing God to submit for God’s fighting on your behalf against the identified enemy. The Israelites know about God, had trust in God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years but lack hope in God when the fear of their enemy overwhelmed them. Exodus 14:11-12 records the Israelites reaction to their enemy, “Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”
Moses responded to the Israelites lack of hope that prompted their negative confession before God, “And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13-14)
Get to know God in the pages of His word. God is true to His word, what He says to one speaks to all. Knowing about God in the place of knowing God will always result in having trust and not having hope in God.
Trust and hope that God is not a partial God. Give self to God’s word. Gain understanding and have the knowledge to be approaching God that was, God that is and will remain forever. He is the unchanging changer that is not partial. Romans 2:11 speaks to all, “For there is no partiality with God.”
It is not enough to know God but to know God and become exposed to His revelation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know Him.