How Do We Know God? Do We Grow In God?

We start by asking Him to reveal Himself, acknowledging that He fully enabled us to know Him when He gave us a new heart at the Resurrection. We already have the capability to know and understand, we just fail to put in the time and attention that any valuable endeavor deserves. Growing in God? As we follow on to know Him, we will increase in our awareness of His presence, involvement, and His character in our lives. In our spirits we are already as mature as we are ever going to get. And our true soulical condition is not growing either, but becoming free from all masks and hindrances to exist as it was created by God to be. Our body, as well, though it is growing older, is not “maturing.” So do we get “closer” to God? Are there “levels” of “saintliness”? In Him, if we ARE in Him, there is no “shadow of turning,” no change, no growth. What DOES change in us is only the appearance of God Himself to and through us. Our experience of knowing God personally brings us more and more into dependence on Him, where He is more and more clearly and easily revealed to and through us. Can We Understand God? Not only do we experience freedom, healing and dependence in our own being, we become available and engaged, enthusiastic and sacrificing, to bring His life to those in need according to His plan. Just as knowing God is developing that personal relationship with Him on all levels, Knowing His Ways, understanding Him is sharing His goals, desires, and activities here on this earth: Doing His Acts. Knowing God is a Process As we commit to His plan for relationship, we will be faced with many challenges. We will come up against our enemies the world, our flesh and the devil. We have simply taken the first step of a unique, lifelong journey. You have not passed this way before, nor has anyone else.