What is the chief end of man? Mans chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever! But- We will experience God in such fashion- we will glorify Him and enjoy Him--only in proportion as we KNOW HIM. The knowledge of God is More essential for the Christian, and indeed for all the world, than the knowledge of ANYTHING ELSE-yes, of ALL THINGS TOGETHER. THE prayer of The Lord Jesus for His disciples in John 17:3 was: "And this is life eternal, that they should know Thee, The Only TRUE GOD, AND HIM WHO THOU DIDST SEND, EVEN JESUS CHRIST" And speaking of this, Christ, our Jehovah -Jesus, Paul sums up in Philippians 3:10 the great goal of his life: " That I may Know Him (amen) "I suppose if sin had not entered the world," says one writer," the acquisition of the Knowledge of God would have been the HIGH OCCUPATION OF MAN FOREVER AND EVER." It is for a lack of knowledge of God that the prophet Hosea informs his people they are DESTROYED! And it is from the lack of knowledge of God that many are without spiritual power or life. There is little real knowledge of God in these days of the ONE, TRUE GOD. There are many ways, of course to study God. The God who of old time spoke, " unto the fathers in the prophets by diverse portions and in divers manners, hath at the end if these days spoken to us in His Son " the epistle to the Hebrews tells us. And this Son, Jesus Christ, while on earth said in the great discourse and prayer with God:"I have manifested Thy name. Unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of this world..." John 17:6"And I have declared unto them My name and will declare it: that the love where with Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them" John17:26
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:31:54 +0000
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