FAITH CAPSULE: It is not enough to know about God but to know 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 living life by the word of God.
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 in God.
Do you know God to trust and hope in Him?
With trust, many know about God but do not have the hope to gain an 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 does not know God to submit in hope before God.
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but they had no hope in God when the fear of their enemy overwhelmed them.
Exodus 14:11-12 records the reaction of the Israelites to the 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 lack of hope of the Israelites 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 that is unfailing.
Trust and hope that God is not a partial God.
Give self to the word of God.
Gain understanding and knowledge to be approaching God that was, God that is, and will remain forever.
God 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 about God but to know God and become exposed to His revelation.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know Him.