A God Worth Knowing

April 20

God is a personal God. We know it is His desire to have a relationship with each of us. We know it is His will that we seek Him early in life and walk with Him all our days. We know He wants us to know Him face-to-face. That is why He came to earth as a Man. Jesus’ incarnation fleshed God out for us.

Although that did not occur in fullness until Christ laid aside His deity and dwelt among men as described in Philippians 2: 5-7 which says, “Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of …a man…” yet there were Old Testament types and shadows of the incarnation.

One was the declaration of His presence with man that is found in Deuteronomy 7:21 which says, “The Lord your God who is among you is a great and awesome God.” It is obviously His will—it has always been His will—to walk among His people and to interact with them in great and mighty ways.

Our loving, omnipresent Father God wants to demonstrate His awesome power among us. If it were not His intent to be everything to us that we need for salvation in life and for hope of life eternal, why would He have left heaven to reveal His love to us in such a graphic way? A God who would do all that for us is certainly a God worth knowing well!