When I began the study of the Word of God, I went wanting to know God, wanting to find Him, and with a huge desire to experience Him, to be in a relationship with Him! I wanted to have Him engrained in me, be a part of who I am. I wanted to have Him be my Master and my Guide, to be my Counselor, my Healer, my Love! The yearning was great, and I was not nor have I ever been let down in my pursuit of knowing Him through the study of His written Word. My faith gets bigger with it, and I know yours will also as He reveals Himself to you. For any relationship for it to be healthy, deep, and real, commitment is required. The study of His Word takes commitment!
…The question isn’t or wasn’t did I believe in God; the question for me was, and the one that I’ll pose to you now is, do I know God, do I REALLY know God? Who are you, God? The answer for me was what shook me a bit; it was NO, I don’t really know God, but I seemed only to know of God! Wow! What a realization this was for me; because I professed to be one who believed in Him, I would NEVER have said that I didn’t believe in God! So how is it that I support that belief? With these thoughts and questions running rampant in my head, I began to feel the need to find out who God was.
God formed man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life! The man came alive-a living soul! Genesis 2:7 MSG