How can I know God?
What is Christianity? Some say it is a way of thinking, others say it is a moral position, while still others guarantee it is really an encounter. None of these things truly takes care of business, be that as it may. Each is something a Christian has, however not one of them fills in as a meaning of what a Christian is. Christianity has at its center an exchange between an individual and God. An individual who turns into a Christian actions from thinking about God indirectly to thinking about him straightforwardly and personally. Christianity is knowing God.
For what reason do I have to know God?
Our longing for individual information on God is solid, however we as a rule neglect to perceive the truth about that craving. At the point when we first become hopelessly enamored, when we initially wed, when we at long last break into our picked field, when we finally get that end of the week house — these forward leaps stir in us expectation of something which, things being what they are, never happens. We ultimately find that our craving for that valuable something is an aching no sweetheart or profession or accomplishment, even the most ideal ones, can at any point fulfill. The fulfillment blurs even as we close our fingers around our objective. Nothing conveys the delight it appeared to guarantee. A significant number of us keep away from the yawning vacancy through hecticness or disavowal, however, best case scenario, there is only a deferment.
To shape an individual relationship with God, you should know three things:
WHO WE ARE:
God’s creation. God made us and fabricated us for a relationship with him. We have a place with him, and we owe him appreciation for each breath, each second, everything. Since people were worked to live for him (to venerate), we will consistently attempt to love something — if not God, we will pick some other object of extreme commitment to give our lives meaning.
Delinquents. We have all picked (and re-attest every day) to dismiss God and to make our own delight and satisfaction our most elevated need. We would prefer not to revere God and give up ourselves as expert, yet we are worked to adore, so we stick to symbols, focusing our lives on things that guarantee to give us meaning: achievement, connections, impact, love, solace, etc.
In otherworldly servitude. To live for whatever else yet God prompts breakdown and rot. At the point when a fish leaves the water, which he was worked for, he isn’t free, however dead. Revering different things other than God prompts a deficiency of significance. On the off chance that we accomplish these things, they can’t convey fulfillment, since they were never intended to be “divine beings.” They were never intended to supplant God. Adoring different things other than God likewise prompts mental self portrait issues. We wind up characterizing ourselves as far as our accomplishment in these things. We should have them or everything is lost; so they drive us to buckle down, or they fill us with dread in case they are imperiled.
WHO GOD IS:
Love and equity. His dynamic concern is for our euphoria and prosperity. The vast majority love the individuals who love them, yet God loves and looks for the great even of individuals who are his adversaries. But since God is acceptable and adoring, he can’t endure evil. Something contrary to adore isn’t outrage, however lack of interest. “The more you love your child, the more you disdain in him the liar, the alcoholic, the trickster,” (E. Gifford). To envision God’s circumstance, envision an appointed authority who additionally is a dad, who sits at the preliminary of his liable child. An adjudicator realizes he can’t release his child, for without equity no general public can endure. What amount less can a caring God only disregard or suspend equity for us — who are cherished, yet liable of resistance to his caring position?
Jesus Christ. Jesus is God himself come to Earth. He initially carried on with an ideal life, cherishing God with his entire existence, soul, and brain, satisfying all human commitment to God. He carried on with the existence you owed — an ideal record. Then, at that point, rather than accepting his merited prize (unceasing life), Jesus gave his life as a penance for our wrongdoings, taking the discipline and demise every one of us owed. At the point when we trust in him: 1) our wrongdoings are paid for by his passing, and 2) his ideal life record is moved to our record. So God acknowledges and sees us as though we have done all Christ has done.
WHAT YOU MUST DO:
Apologize. There first should be an affirmation that you have been living as your own lord, revering some unacceptable things, disregarding God’s caring laws. “Apology” signifies you ask absolution and abandon that position with an ability to live for and fixate on him.
Accept. Confidence is moving your trust from your own endeavors to the endeavors of Christ. You were depending on different things to make you adequate, however presently you deliberately start depending on how Jesus helped your acknowledgment with God. All you need isn’t anything. On the off chance that you think, “God owes me something for every one of my endeavors,” you are as yet outwardly.
Supplicate after this design: “I see I am more defective and wicked than I at any point tried to accept, yet that I am much more adored and acknowledged than I at any point tried expectation. I abandon my previous lifestyle of living for myself. I don’t have anything in my record to justify your endorsement, however I currently rest in what Jesus did and request to be acknowledged into God’s family for the wellbeing of he.” When you make this exchange, two things occur on the double: 1) your records are cleared, your transgressions are cleared out forever, you are received legitimately into God’s family and 2) the Holy Spirit enters your heart and starts to transform you into the personality of Jesus.
Finish. Inform a Christian companion regarding your responsibility. Make yourself train in the essential Christian disciplines of supplication, love, Bible investigation, and cooperation with different Christians.
For what reason would it be advisable for me to look for God?
On one hand, you may feel that you “need” him. Despite the fact that you may perceive that you have needs no one but God can meet, you should make an effort not to utilize him to accomplish your own closures. It is absurd to expect to deal with God. (“I’ll do this on the off chance that you will do that.”) That isn’t Christianity in any way, yet a type of enchantment or agnosticism where you “assuage” the cantankerous divinity in return for some help. Is it true that you are getting into Christianity to serve God, or to get God to serve you? Those are two inverse thought processes and they bring about two distinct religions. You should come to God since 1) you owe it to him to give him your life (since he is your maker) and 2) you are profoundly appreciative to him for forfeiting his child (since he is your deliverer.)
Then again, you may feel no need or interest to know God by any means. This doesn’t mean you should remain uncertain. In the event that you were made by God, you owe him your life, if you feel like it. You are committed to look for him and request that he relax your heart, open your eyes, and edify you. On the off chance that you say, “I have no confidence,” that is no reason by the same token. You need just uncertainty your questions. Nobody can question everything simultaneously — you should put stock in something to question something different. For instance, do you trust you are equipped to run your own life? Where is the proof of that? Why question everything except your questions about God and your confidence in yourself? Is that reasonable? You owe it to God to look for him. Do as such.