Do you know what you know

On Tuesday, I had morning coffee with the Pastor who will be going back to New Zealand soon. It wasn’t serious meeting, just a casual meeting between two friends having a chit chat.

We were talking about a lot of things and at one stage I mentioned to him that I use to think that “I know what I know” about God and how wrong I was.  This journey that I am travelling on had really opened up my minds concerning what I know about God.

I was asked to share with the worship ministry group that was having their music practice today and I shared essentially the same thing. Do we really know what we know about God?

For me, the crux of the matter is not what we know about Him but rather, have we experienced Him.

In any relationships, regardless whether it is between family, spouse, friends or colleagues, it is not an academic process; it is not going to school to learn about relationship and passing an examination to say that we know what it is like in a relationship or to be in a relationship. 

Relationship is an experience, it is to be experienced.

Therefore, my proposition is that relationship with the Father, with Jesus and the Holy Spirit is an experience. When we want to learn something about someone, we do so by talking to that person, by going out, having a chit chat, by doing things together in general. It is a process and in the process we learnt about the person and we experienced the relatiuonship. Similarly with God, we learnt about Him through the bible, through prayer, through the prompting and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, through circumstances, through the sharing of others, we learn about Him by experiencing Him.

Do we really know what we know about God if we had not experienced Him? He is real. He is not a mental exercise in the study of the bible. We do not know him until we experienced Him.

I was sharing this verse today, Psalm 18: 2 and it reads “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” (NASB)

 A lot of us know this verse but do we really know this verse?

Just to be forthright about it, I don’t think we really know this verse until we truly experienced God and declare unreservedly deep in our heart that He is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, He is my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

The following song was given to me as a word especially the chorus. It follows the same theme on God our solid rock

LORD YOU ARE ALWAYS HERE WITH ME

Words and Music by BO & ELSA JÄRPEHAG

Verse:

When troubles come I trust in You

For I know You will lead me through

And I know You are faithful Till the end

And when the storms are drawing near

When I'm with You I don't have to fear

You're my Shepherd on whom I can depend

Pre-Chorus:

Through the day, Through the night

I know You're always by my side

Chorus:

Lord You are always here with me

There is no changing God in thee

You are the same yesterday

And today and forevermore

Here on your promises I stand

You hold my future in your hand

My solid rock, Almighty God

I worship You

And so… In God I Trust.