Confident That You Know God

"Now by this we know that we know God,

if we keep His commandments."

(1 John 2:3 NKJV)

    Do you want to be assured of the fact that you know God? You can! By reading the Bible and obeying His instructions and commands found in the New Testament!

"He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep 

His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

(1 John 2:4 NKJV)

    We cannot say we know God and then follow our own rules (Proverbs 1:7; 3:5-8, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 16:24-26). Knowing God is more than simply knowing OF God and acknowledging His existence. To know God we must seek Him and desire to learn from Him through His Word. When we KNOW what God has done for us - creating us, preparing a way for us to gain freedom from sin through Jesus' sacrifice, preserving His Word through all these centuries so that we may know Him, and through His Word providing us with instruction so we can do what is good and right in His sight - we will come to respect Him and feel awe toward Him and His ways! We will want to do all that we can to learn and obey, keeping to the narrow way, as we increase our understanding of His great love, His grace, and His mercy!

 

"But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God

is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him."

(1 John 2:5 NKJV)

 

    God's love teaches us perfect and complete love. Through obedience of His commands we learn how to love in this same way and the love of God will be completed in us; love will have come full circle, fully reciprocated! God first loved us, we now love God, and we learn from His instructions how to love our fellow man!

 

    To change your "I think" or "I feel" to a confident "I know" you must be willing to let go of your own ideas and notions and seek out God's holy instruction with a mindset that says, "God said it, I believe it, I will do it!" Only then can you be confident that you know God and abide in Him!

"He who says he abides in Him ought himself 

also to walk just as He walked."

(1 John 2:6 NKJV)

 

    When you love God, you will obey His commandments. In obeying His commandments you will begin to look like Him, because Jesus, Himself, modelled Gods ways to us. God does not ask anything of us that He has not already done! Jesus exemplified God's love and obeyed all His commands, yes, even baptism (Matthew 3:13-17)! Paul was confident in his humble obedience when he instructed the Corinthians to imitate him as he imitated Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1), we can do the same!

 

    Build your confidence in knowing God by KNOWING His commands and establish your heart in obeying them! Give your faith opportunity to flourish as you see God's wisdom displayed in the things He asks of you - see that His commands are only ever for your good - the boundaries keep you from harmful haunts and habits and the freedoms grant you increase in the very best of every good things (consider Galatians 5:19-23)!

 

    It is worth every effort to KNOW - with confidence - that you truly love God, by doing what is right in His sight, by walking as He walked, and being an example of faith, hope, and love to others!

 

You can do it! So can I!!