FAITH CAPSULE: Do you know God or know about God?

John 1

Among the reasons not to know God but knows about God are:
Forgetting attributes of God
Lack of Understanding
Truth is not appealing to the world 
Forgetting attributes of God
Forgetting attributes of God, not being thought about God will not know God. 
Deuteronomy 4:5-6 buttresses, “Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. 6 Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding…”  
A failure to give self to studying the word of God will not understand the attributes of God, to know God.
Lack of Understanding
A failure to give attention to the word of God will result in a listening disability. Jesus questioned and answered why lack of understanding, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” (John 8:43)
It is not possible to understand who one does not know. 
The world is too busy and not to give attention to God. 
Are you giving attention to listening to the word of God?
One that listens will know to gain an understanding of God.
He is a good God, the only God that reverses irreversible.
Truth is not of the wicked world
Truth is not popular, is not acceptable to the world. It is not possible to know what is not accepted and not believed. 
John 8:45-47 records the word of Jesus that speaks the truth about not knowing God, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore, you do not hear, because you are not of God.” One that does not accept truth to believe does not know God that is true.
You must know God to come out of the religion of this wicked world.
The evidence of one that knows God is to be living by the word of God.
One must know God to come out of the religion of the wicked world.
One that studies the word of God will know God but is a costly sacrifice.
To know God is seeking God diligently, to please God in the ways of life. Hebrews 11:6 informs all, “But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 
You must know God because knowing about God is not enough to escape the lasting pain for one that does not know God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to make you know Him and live life for God.