The more you know about something, the more it impacts you, and the more compelled you are to act on it.
This knowledge could come from listening to someone’s concerns, reading the news, analyzing facts, or even experiencing a positive or negative event.
The actions that follow could range from feeling an emotion to researching information to changing your opinion to altering your life because of it.
What are you increasing your knowledge about lately?
Have you been growing in knowledge about God? Do you desire to know him more deeply?
The more we know about God, the more we will be impacted by him and then be compelled to act on what we are learning. He is a life changer!
Our knowledge of God can never be fully satisfied. “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable” (Psalm 145:3 ESV). The God of the universe – maker, judge, savior, transformer – is beyond our comprehension. If we could understand everything about him, he would not be greater than us, his creation. Nor would he be omniscient, omnipresent, or omnipotent. God’s ways are not our ways nor his thoughts our thoughts (Isaiah 55:8). He works his plan and is in control.
And with his power he is also good. “The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all he has made” (Psalm 145:9 ESV). As we study his ways and review his deeds throughout history, we see his thread of love, holiness, truth, justice, and hope. Jesus is our hope and through knowing him we can know the Father (John 14:6).
As we learn more of God’s holiness are we given to humility and repentance? (1 Thessalonians 4:7)
As we learn more of God’s love do we accept it warmly and pass it on to others? (John 15:12)
As we learn more of God’s truths do we choose to live God’s ways in obedience? (Psalm 86:11)
As we learn more of God’s power are we willing to entrust ourselves to him? (Psalm 23:4)
Reading Psalm 145 is one way to praise God and focus on his greatness! May it motivate us to study the God we serve and be impacted by his truths.
What, then, will this compel us to do? The pressing question is will we submit to him?
Let the words of God impact you as you study them daily using a Heart Training book.