Know God, Be Known by God

This weekend at my youth group one of the interns spoke about how God knows us. He doesn’t just know us like our friends know us in the limited way of what we choose to reveal to them, but He really KNOWS us. He knows everything about us, everything we think, we do, we are. This is a great comfort, as we can be totally open with God and He loves us unconditionally, but it also can scare us how much He knows, and that we can’t hide anything. It also was mentioned how we need to know God, and the fruit in our lives starts with that relationship, not the other way around. This is such a basic Christian truth, but for some reason this week it really stood out to me. I have had great growth in my walk with the Lord, but many times I struggle with falling into habits of just being a well behaved, nice church kid. The more you know God, the more you realize how much there is about him to know. He is beyond comprehension in his love and his grace and His mercy.
I have struggled in the past with having to constantly remind myself about God, and keep up spiritual motivation to be able to be a “good Christian,” but this is not how it is supposed to be. I realized again that I need to seek God first, and then everything else will fall into place. I need to not just talk about how I am going to read my bible more, but actually do it. I need to focus more time on prayer and reading and studying the word, and put everything else second no matter how important it seems at the time. The wonderful thing is the more you fall in love with God for who He is, and depend and trust Him to work in your life, the less you feel the need to do on your own. Even giving up your life to Him takes His strength.
I have also been thinking about how there is no better time to start something than now. I don’t have to wait for a camp or retreat, or an emotional night, or some big event to turn my life around. I need to change now, and always be changing as soon as God reveals something in my life that needs to be changed. As soon as that changes, another thing in my life will be brought to my attention to work on. I want God to be shaping and molding my life into whatever He wants it to be to please Him. Change doesn’t always happen when we expect it. I want to keep working towards having this change be incorporated as a part of my every day life.

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