Today’s Devotion
Topic: Knowing God
Text: 1 Samuel 3:1, 7
1 The boy Samuel ministered before the LORD under Eli. In those days the word of the LORD was rare; there were not many visions. 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD: The word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him. Amen
Beloved, knowing the Lord requires a little more than just being born into a religious home, serving religious leaders or being part of some religious activities in your local church. From the text above, the boy Samuel is said to have ministered before the Lord yet did not yet know HIM. So the question therefore is, “what does it mean to know God?”
1. To know God means to know His word. Remember the boy Samuel did not yet know the Lord because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.
2. To know God means to be able to know and identify His voice. Jesus said in John 10:27 that, His sheep listen to His voice. Samuel did not yet know the Lord because he could not recognize the voice of God.
3. We do not only hear His voice but obey what we hear Him say-His commands (John 14:21). This shows we love Him also.
4. We know God when He can call us His friends as Jesus later called His disciples- Luke 12: 4
5. We know God when we move from being friends to being His brothers- Mat. 12: 49. By that we have become part of His family hence heirs of the throne.
6. We know God when we can demonstrate His love in all that we do;God is Love! (1 John 4: 8)
7. We know God when our lives have been completely transformed by the power that comes from knowing Him. (Galatians 4: 8-9)
We therefore can claim to know God when we have a personal relationship with Him through consistent prayer, bible study, obedience, righteous living and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Now, when Jesus would pray the gift of eternal life for us, He rather prayed that we know have knowledge of the trinity. He said, “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” (John 17:3).
Beloved, please meditate thoroughly on this word and begin to pray. Ask the Holy Spirit to “open the eyes of your understanding, so that you may know the hope to which He has called you, (and) the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people.” (Ephe 1: 18). This is the only way by which you may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings; being made conformable unto His death (Phil 3: 10).
Now to the question that only you can answer: Do you know the Lord, or better still, are you known by Him?
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