What Does it Mean to Know the Lord?

There are so many professing Christians who don’t know the Living God. They haven’t

encountered Grace Personified. Given, grace is a very hard concept to understand and can only

begin to be grasped through Divine revelation. To know the Lord is to love the Lord and

evidence of this love is obedience to His Word. Christians don’t obey God out of fear but out of

our deep love for Him and our reverential awe towards Him. God is not hiding, He wants us to

seek Him and He promises that we will find Him when we seek Him with all our heart. God

doesn’t lie. Seek Him with a sincere heart and He WILL reveal Himself to you. The first step in

seeking the Lord is through His Holy Word. The Bible reveals Jesus to us from Genesis to

Revelation. No sermon or book from man will ever compare to the Holy Spirit illuminating

God’s Word in our hearts. He makes the Word come alive. Before you read the Bible, invite Him

to be with you and to give you knowledge, insight, revelation, understanding of the Word.

There is head knowledge of the Lord but true knowledge of Him comes from Him revealing

Himself to us through our life experiences. This is the experiential knowledge of God. The more

we know God, the more we are aware of the depths of our sinful nature. The closer we get to

Him, the more we get burned to be purified like gold. No one seeking intimacy with Him, will

escape this process as God is an all-consuming fire. Sin cannot be in His Presence so getting

close to Him will require us to let go of any sinful habits. The sin that has held people bondage

like addictions are broken off as we get to know God as a Consuming fire. To know the Lord is

to get familiar with all His beautiful characteristics. We get to know Him as Holy, completely set

apart and perfect in righteousness. Getting to know Him as Holy invokes a response of

repentance and falling to our faces in worship. Just like the Prophet Isaiah cried out “Woe is me,

a man of unclean lips” when He saw a glimpse of God’s Holiness. If we had any semblance of

righteousness of our own, it will be brought down at the revelation of how filthy we are

compared to such a majestic Holy God. God’s Holiness is the only characteristic of Him repeated

three times consecutively in the Bible to show emphasis. Being exposed to His Holiness brings

about a true fear of the Lord. One cannot get a glimpse of His Holiness and continue to walk

with no fear of the Lord. At the revelation of His Holiness, we realize just how spiritually

bankrupt we are and how there is nothing good in our hearts. The heart is desperately wicked

who can know it the Bible says. As we get to know God more, our lives are going to be turned

upside down. This is because true knowledge of God is experiential knowledge of Him. This is

the difference between professed Christians and born-again believers. Born again believers know

God because they have seen Him move in their lives. This is why true believers can never deny

Him and denounce the faith.

“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt

have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not

all of us.”

1 John 2:19 (KJV)