Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. (Job 22:21)

There is so much that could be said about the God of the Bible. So much so that every bit of human effort directed to express in whatever purity the extents of His majesty would be an effort that is nothing short of futile. I am amazed that people would describe the Lord of Glory as someone easy to grasp. I am amazed at how people can perceive Him to be entirely simplistic in nature. O, how convinced am I that to come face to face with the Lord of the Bible and then say that He is easily grasped is to speak an unbelievable contradiction! Nay instead it casts us off into a magnificent journey! A journey to seek Him for who He said He is. A journey to know Him as expressed in His word that we may worship Him both in Spirit and in truth.

How is it that we love God? Rather how does one love God? Is it not true that our expression of love will only go so far to what we know of the object of our affections? Is it not true that our love towards God and our worship towards Him would only go so far to what we know of Him? Let us pray, dear beloved, that we meet with God in His word in greater measure in able that we give Him the worship He deserves.

The greatest treasure and greatest desire for anyone Christian is to know his God! This is the source of his peace, the fountainhead of his good, to know Him in the fullness of His character and to come to grips with His attributes. To say that “I know Him and He knows me” is a world of amazement for such as us.

O, indeed to such as us!

Do you know Him? Have you come face to face with His holiness? His justice and righteousness? Have you seen Him in His majesty? In His glory? In the incomprehensibility of His splendor? Have you seen Him dear soul? Have you met with the God of the Bible? Have you been confronted with your sin, the vileness of your soul, and the rottenness of your heart? Have you met Him? Has He shown you the unworthiness of your self, the wickedness of your conduct and the filthiness of even your deeds? Have you been made to see dear soul? Do you see Him who His eternally righteous and holy? Have you seen your just condemnation before Him, that He being a just and holy God must pour out His wrath to such as you. In the impurity of your thoughts, the blasphemies of your tongue and the rebellion of your soul against the Living God?

O soul, do you know Him? Have you met Him?

That same God who took upon Himself the nature of a man while being fully God, the hypostatic union. Coming down from eternal glory and union with the Father, exiting the gates of pearl and the streets of gold, fullfilling the requirements of the law, hated by men, and ultimately hung on the tree. As it is written that He, the Lord our God and Savior, Christ Jesus, is the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the earth (Rev 13:8). He died! God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:8). Yea He died taking the full extent of God’s wrath intended for you and me, but then He has risen again!

O, have you seen this God dear soul? Have you seen that same God to which Paul describes about those He determines to save:

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,  For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:33-39)

Thus the call to salvation is: Repent and believe the gospel! (Mark 1:15) Do this dear soul, and thou shalt be saved! (Acts 2:38) Do not delay, behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation! (2 Cor 6:2)

Have you seen God?

Have you met Him?

Have you been saved?

Seek Him dear heart, The King of Glory! There is no other profitable task in this dustball called earth other than this endeavor. Nothing greater, nothing grander, no one thing apart from being saved will surpass this awe-full privelege of knowing God! Come let us cast ourselves in this magnificent obsession and be drowned and lost in everything He is. May this be our joy, and our satisfaction, Amen.