Knowing You more!

"Knowing you more is wanting to know you more".

Stop and consider for a moment what these lyrics mean. Knowing God more is simply

 wanting to know Him even more.

This is so simple, exciting, convicting and reassuring. It's simple in the way that we can so often over complicate phases like "knowing God more" with our own resolves and agendas on how to achieve this. We think if we read our bible more, go to church more, serve more that we will know Him better and although these things have their place and defiantly can play a role in doing so it is also as simple as just having a deeper desire to "know" God. 

It's exciting because the more we grow in knowing God the more we should want to. There is always more we can know about Him and more intimate ways for us to know Him. We never have to stop, not in this life on earth and defiantly not when we get to heaven. We know God is far greater then us and above all things we can imagine but do we understand what it means that we should never stop desiring to know Him more?

Psalms 113:5-7 says "Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, 

who looks far down on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from 

the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heaps."

It's convicting in the way that so often our lives of wanting to know God more doesn't bring about this reaction or desire. We far to easily think we have reach or already obtained what we are yet so so very far away from. It's convicting when we think that perhaps we don't actually want to know God because we aren't really feeling like we want to know Him more then we already do. Or perhaps its when we realize that we have stopped wanting to know God all together or the thought of wanting to know God personally is completely foreign to us. 

David sings out in desire for God when he says "How lovely is your dwelling place O Lord of hosts. My soul longs, yes even faints for the courts of the Lord. For a day in your courts is better then a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a door keeper in the house of my God than dwell in tents of wickedness." Psalm 84:1,10

And finally it is reassuring! Our God is so great and so mighty, so complex that we cannot ever know Him complete and this God is the one who is in complete control of every aspect of our lives, this reality should be of great comfort and assurance to us. The more we know God and the more intimate we become with our God and Savior should prob us desire to know and be even more intimate with Him. And the more we know God and continue to seek to know God more we will be far more effective, loving and God glorifying in our lives as a representative of Gods grace. May we also be able to say;

"Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth that I desire 

besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:25-26