All Thanks to God for the Privilege of Allowing Me to Get to Know Even 1% of Him Through His Son Jesus Christ! Psalm 46

Psalm 46 Revised Standard Version

God’s Defense of His City and People

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song.

46 God is our refuge and strength,
a very present^[a] help in trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change,
    though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
³ though its waters roar and foam,
    though the mountains tremble with its tumult. Selah

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
    the holy habitation of the Most High.
⁵ God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;
    God will help her right early.
⁶ The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
    he utters his voice, the earth melts.
⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our refuge.^[b]Selah

⁸ Come, behold the works of the Lord,
    how he has wrought desolations in the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
    he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear,
    he burns the chariots with fire!
¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God.
    I am exalted among the nations,
    I am exalted in the earth!”
¹¹ The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our refuge.^[c]Selah

The Word of God for the Children of God.

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.

To know God is to experience God.

Just as we experience aspects of one another as we grow in our friendships, we experience the awesome wonders of our God as we all seek to simply know him.

God is calling us to a life of seeking him with all we are.

Every single moment of every single day He is calling us to value relationship with Him above all else, above all others, that we would love no other but him.

In this coming season of Advent and Christmas, may we renew and refresh our minds, encounter wonderful aspects of relationship with your heavenly Father as we wholeheartedly dig into His Scriptures, seek to know him with all we are.

God Absolutely Wants to be Known

Psalm 46:10-11 Amplified Bible

¹⁰ 
“Be still and know (recognize, understand) that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth.”
¹¹ 
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold [our refuge, our high tower]. Selah.

All Truth Be Told – For Us – The single greatest privilege in life is to know God.

The God of All Creation, The God who formed us in our Mothers, provides for us in all life and sent his Son to die for us, longs to have real relationship with us.

He longs to be known by every single one of His Children.

And through the first coming of His Son, His miraculous Ministry among us, His powerful sacrifice of Jesus, we truly can know him like any other person.

And in fact, throughout His Scriptures reveal that in some respects God is infinitely more knowable than any other person. Jeremiah 31:33-34 says,

Jeremiah 31:33-34 New American Standard Bible

³³ “For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ³⁴ They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”

“From the least of them to the greatest,” says the living God.

Thanks be to God! No matter who we are, no matter where we are, no matter when we are and no matter what we have done, we can know the God of love.

Thanks be to God, Knowing God, from Alpha to Omega, is no longer reserved for those individually appointed as His Priests, Prophets, Kings and Apostles.

Knowing God, from Alpha to Omega, is no longer reserved for those like David, Isaiah, Paul and Peter – because of Jesus, we have equal access to the living God.

And from the place of knowing God, thanks be to God, we are granted the ability through Christ who is the Living Word of God, to experience all of His incredible attributes, by His Spirit, be blessed by a greater awareness, our union with Him.

When we seek to know God, the Bible is clear: we begin to experience his love (Romans 5:5), hear his voice (John 10:27), feel his peace (2 Thessalonians 3:16) and, thanks be to God, we can partner in his purposes (1 Peter 2:9), experience his freedom (Romans 6:4), and rest in His presence (Psalm 16:11) all our lives.

When we center our lives around knowing God, we gain experience with him like we do any other person.

I do not seek to hear only my wife’s voice, rather I seek to know her and have conversation with her as a byproduct of our shared study, knowledge of God.

I don’t seek just the emotion of love from my wife; rather, in getting to know her and walking in relationship with her, I experience her affections for me.

So it is with our relationship with God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

When we each simply seek to know Him as well as He knows us, we gain real Kingdom experience in return which can then be translated outward (Acts 1:8).

Acts 1:7-8 New American Standard Bible

⁷ But He said to them, “It is not for you to know periods of time or appointed times which the Father has set by His own authority; ⁸ but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth.”

I pray as we all enter into this coming Christmas Season, we will all look at the individual aspects of experiencing God our heart is stirred to simply seek deeper “thanks” relationship with our heavenly Father, whatever comes as the result.

Thanks be to God, From Alpha to Omega, Your Father loved each of us enough to send His Son Jesus, to pay the ultimate price to have relationship with us all.

From Alpha to Omega, seek Him, discover the wealth of His affections for you.

In the name of God, the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,

Let us Pray,

Guided Prayer:

1. Meditate on the availability of knowing the living God. 

Allow His Scriptures to stir up your desire to seek Him with all your heart.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10

“You have said, ‘Seek my face.’ My heart says to you, ‘Your face, Lord, do I seek.’” Psalm 27:8

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34

2. Is your life centered around the pursuit of knowing God? 

Check the posture of your heart today.

Look at the way you spend your time, your emotions, your thoughts, and your actions. What seems to be your greatest pursuit?

3. Spend some time centering your heart around true relationship with a knowable God. 

Ask Him to help guide your heart through your day toward this pursuit.

Ask Him to give you a check in your heart when something takes his place as the greatest desire in your life.

Live today with Him as your highest priority.

“With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!”  Psalm 119:10

Jeremiah 9:23-24 says,

Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.

May we be those who boast solely in our relationship with God.

May His love and His nearness be our highest joy.

And may it be said of us at the end of our days we sought the Lord above all else!

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.

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