Who Is God?

So many of my friends have started blogging and it seems like such a great outlet that I have decided to give it a shot...

I feel like a lot of times I understand things more after writing them out so many of my blogs will have to do with what the Lord is teaching me. I hope that something will be of an encouragement to you in some way and spur you on in your faith.

Today I began my day by meeting with one of my favorite freshman girls at the Bakery to get into the Word. We are looking at Who is God, and studying the Names of God, as well as His attributes. It is a very powerful study and I just wanted to share this with you.

"This is what the Lord says: Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this; that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth for in these I delight," declares the Lord." Jeremiah 9:23-24

This verse is so powerful...and while in the last six months to a year my walk with Christ has been revolutionized I continue to learn more about who my saviour is. I am amazed that while Christ promises we have the power to know him truly, we can never exhaust our knowledge of Him. There is always more to be learned and understood, and when we feel that we know our God fully we find we can dig even deeper.

Our purpose in this life is to know God's glory. To learn God's Word. To advance God's kingdom. This is our mission in life. It is not something we have to pray about or negotiate with God about. Our mission in this life is to do this things and to do them well. We should never be known as the Christian who was "too scared" to share their special gift of Christ's love with someone and therefore take the gospel to the grave with them. In order to effectively share this gospel of good news we must know the Creator who wrote this story.

A.W. Tozer, says "We have but to want Him badly enough, and He will come and manifest Himself to us." We just have to want Him. That is where so many of us misunderstand. Our faith and Christianity is not about doing things. It is not a to do list of good things and a list of things to avoid. Our relationship with Jesus is about coming to JESUS to get JESUS! It is about desiring to know Him more and more in a deeper and deeper way. It is about hungering for His Word, and loving the unlovable. Being a Jesus follower is about Jesus not the do's and dont's...when we are desperate for Jesus...all the do's and dont's take care of themselves. Someone desperate for Jesus is desperate to obey Him and desperate to share His love.

The last thing...when we truly know the Lord then routine religion is no longer tolerable. We are not okay with the checking off of boxes for the sake of checking them off. Casual worship is no longer possible. Total surrender is no longer optional. We desire to surrender totally because we become desperate to live a life chasing radically after Jesus. and lastly, Global mission is no longer negotiable. We do not have to be "called to the mission field"....WE ARE COMMANDED to GO and make disciples in Matthew 28. It is not recommended, suggested or mentioned...it is a command straight from Jesus himself to GO! When we know who God is we desire to stop making excuses on why to stay comfortable but we desire to do whatever it takes to be UNcomfortable for His Name, and whatever that means we desire to do it.

So may we all hunger to know the Lord deeper on a daily basis in order that we may go out and be more than conquerors in Christ Jesus!!

Peace and Blessings