Know God
ICS Daily Devotions
God has taken the initiative to help us know Him by giving us the Bible. How we can experience Him is to have faith in His Word because He and His Word are one. God is faithful and trustworthy, and He watches over His Word to ensure that it is honoured. If we desire to walk by faith, we need to focus on His Word.
Mark 4:41 (NKJV) And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
When the disciples made this remark, they did not have a full revelation of who Jesus is until Jesus asked them “Who do you say that I am?”.
Matthew 16:15-16 (NKJV) He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Knowing God is a process. After we have received Christ, we will move from having a knowledge of God to knowing God, as we grow from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity.
We can know God when we read the Word especially the life and ministry of Jesus. Jesus declares and reveals God to us because He does whatever He sees the Father doing. We can know God’s character and attributes, what He expects of us, and how to trust in Him. He has good thoughts and plans for our lives. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts so are His ways higher than our ways. He has given us the promise that He will never leave or forsake us. Therefore, we need not fear what will happen tomorrow.
We can walk with God and know Him through the Word. We will taste and see the goodness of God when we walk out of the lifestyle of faith in the consecrated life. Therefore, we should do our devotion daily by praising, praying, and through the reading of Scriptures.
Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
When we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to serve God, including being an effective witness in the corporate world, we will experience His perfect will. We can also resist conforming to this world if we are confident and secure in His love. We can only prove His good, acceptable, and perfect will when we consecrate ourselves to walk in His plan or will for our lives.
Sermon Series: Walking on Water
