Know your God.. !!

When I say “Know your God”, you will question me back, asking, do you think that I don’t know the God I follow..?

No.. I don’t say so, but I want you to really KNOW OUR GOD and be filled the knowledge of knowing our God. Let me show a verse, read Colossians chapter 1, verse 10. It says a something about knowledge of God. In Tamil bible (which I read J) it says as “Knowledge of KNOWING GOD”.  Do u think that the Colossians were not knowing God? No, they heard the Gospel and the Gospel worked wonders in them and they started to follow Jesus. (read the previous verses).

Then now the question rises, why then Paul should insist on Knowing the God.

Let’s meditate:

We too, fall in the same category, we heard the gospel and it changed us, and we follow Christ, and we proudly call ourselves Christians, we go to church, we sponsor ministries, BUT yet, there is a call today, which asks us to KNOW GOD.

When we pray, we praise different names of God like, Almighty, El-Shaddai,  Jehova Jireh, Elohim, etc., But when we finish our prayer, we tend to forget these attributes of our Lord and start worrying about the problems and challenges we face on that day.

Let me give you an example.

 Let’s say, that you are driving on a highway without helmet and was caught by a traffic sergeant. How would you react? We try to please him and try to get away from fine. We might say that it was very urgent and we forgot the helmet and will assure that we always wore helmet and will try to neutralize the issue.

Now, lets see the same situation again, think you are very close to the inspector or the police commissioner of the city. How would you react? You will not try to please him, but will show an air of superiority and would explain your relationship with the Commissioner and would get away from the problem very easily.

And, now think that you are the son of a Minister, and you are caught for not wearing helmet, how would you react now? You would not even switch off your vehicle, you would ask him his name, and would tell him that you can get him a promotion.

Now come on, let’s analyze the situation. The REACTION you had was different each time based on the BACKGROUND you had. When there was no one behind you to help you, you were polite and when there was somebody of power behind you, you never bothered about the problem.

Now think, is this the same way we react to problems in our daily life. You have somebody whom YOU called ALMIGHTY, JEHOVA JIREH behind you. And in that case, how should we react to the problems we face in our daily life. Do we really KNOW our God as ALMIGHTY? Do we really KNOW Him as JEHOVA JIREH? Think…

Think who is behind you, think of your background. You have somebody who loves you unconditionally, somebody who gave his Only begotten son for the love He had on YOU. You have somebody, who left His place, left His privilege to be GOD to be born as a Human and be tortured to death for YOU. You have somebody who has never done a single sin in His life, BECAME SIN for you. You have somebody, who suffered the most torturous death somebody could ever have for YOU. You have somebody who can order the rain and wind. You have somebody, who lives in the past, present and future.

IN SHORT, YOU SOMEBODY WHO CREATED THIS WHOLE WORLD FOR YOU.

In that case, how should we react to the problems and challenges we face? We will always have traffic sergeants in our life. There is somebody who always accuses us (his name is aptly accuser). There is always somebody who stops when we move forward. How should we deal with this problem?

Let’s take it even more practical.  Think of the problem or challenge you face TODAY? NOW understand that you worship THE ALMIGHTY, who can do EVERYTHING. NOW think that the person behind you is JEHOVA JIREH. You will now have whole new dimension of looking at the same problem.

KNOW YOUR GOD and know that you are BORN to WIN.. !!

Amen.