Knowing God

Knowing God.  When I stated that we have to know God, I am not implying that any one person can actually know or understand God and all His God-ness. The prophet Isaiah writes "I don't think the way you think. The way you work isn't the way I work." God's Decree. "For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think" (Isaiah 55:8-9 MSG). So God does not expect us to do something He did not create us to do.  So what does it really mean to know God?  Let me try to expressit  in my limited way. 
Knowing God to me is like this:
Imagine being born in a place where they are no mirrors, no way of seeing a reflection. The only facial image you can see is those around you but you have never seen what your face look like. Wierd isn't it? You can analyze your body parts from the shoulders down, so you have some general idea about basic stuff like your skin color and you can feel parts like your nose but you have never seen it.  You guess a lot of stuff about yourself. You imagine a lot of stuff about yourself.  You assume a lot of stuff about your.  Imagine one day, someone comes into your house and brings you a mirror and for the first time you have the reality of what you look like. You see You in the reflection of the mirror and immediately you know if all you had guessed, imagined or assumed about yourself is true. 
Now in my analogy, God is the mirror.  Here is how a mirror works:
"Light is a form of energy, and when it hits a surface, such as a mirror, it is reflected or bounced from the surface. This is similar to a ball bouncing off a wall. The reflected image is comprised of photons, which are particles of light. When these photons initially hit the mirror they cause electrons to vibrate within atoms, which in turn produces an identical light photon" (Ann Johnson, eHow contributor).  I hope that was not too much science...LOL.
Anyway, knowing God takes God.  You cannot know Him without Him first showing up. In other words you cannot sneak up on God.  Knowing God is when He allows the Light of His Presence to bounce off Himself and you come face to face with His Sovereignty, Divinity and Humanity. It is AWE-some but as at the same time it is involving because right smash in the middle is You.

I share the testimony of Paul
"Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant - dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ - God's righteousness.  I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself" (Phillipians 3:8-10 MSG).

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