Knowing

Proverbs 8:17 ESV

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

A wise and faith filled woman once said, in a Bible study I shared with her, that she knew many facts about Bill Clinton, where he grew up, went to school, his college years, but, she said, " If I were to walk up to Bill Clinton obviously he wouldn't know me at all" Her point was that knowing about God isn't knowing God.

In a world full of lies and half truths about who and what God is and what that means about us humans, we must seek, dig, search out, the truth.
I came to be a Christian because I didn't need to throw logic and reason aside to do so,(No you really don't). You will however need to be ready to discard most of what the world has taught you to believe.

I was skeptical whether the claims of my current faith were true at all, but like many before me, in searching these things out I found the overwhelming evidence that the God of the Bible is who He says He is. I found that we don't live in a universe governed by chance mutation, just take a minute and really imagine what that would look like. I found that where we live, who and what we are, only make sense in a theistic universe, and makes no logical sense at all in an atheistic one. Indeed to be an atheist in this universe we live in takes much more faith and religious dedication than I, or most anyone is capable of.

So in order to get to the truth of our reality, we must peel back many layers of lies our current wicked age preaches to us.

Many learned men in our current society are chasing truth but have discarded God in doing so. Like a rainbow seen from far off but can never be reached, truth will forever allude those who have closed themselves off from God.
So what they find and hold up to us as truth is actually a foolish illusion they've created for themselves. They beg for us to join them in their delusion, not because they are so sure it's true, but because they are seeking validation for themselves.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

True science is about testing and observing and being willing to follow the logical evidence wherever it leads. In our current culture, the only science taught is of the nature that refuses to follow any evidence that might lead to a Creator. Therefore we get theory patched up by more theory that has little to do with the universe we actually live in, which was obviously created.

Why would God tell us so often in His Word that we will need to seek and search Him out?
Because of where we live. Lies propped up by half truths and deceptions is masqueraded as truth here. Why? Because fallen man wants nothing to do with God.
In a place where mankind seeks to be his own god self delusion reigns supreme.
Man goes about seeking from other humans what he now cannot get from his Creator, love, confidence, identity, and validation.

Knowing God comes by persistence. We must not stop our search at the first answer our world demands we take, but  we must press on digging through the deceptions and delusions of this current age.

Not only learning about Him through His word, but each day taking time to find some stillness and allow our spirit to mingle and commune with His.As He promises us in His Word, if we honestly seek Him, He will disclose Himself to us.
He will place His Spirit within us and then little doubt about God's identity will remain and the most paramount relationship of our existence can begin.