You must know Him (Jesus) before you'll know what the Word says. Oh, you can read it, but you won't know it. Understanding the word comes from knowing Him. He reveals Himself through the word, but you must know Him first, by receiving Him as your Lord and Savior, then walking with Him each and every day by looking into the word and seeing Him there. When the born again man looks into the word and sees something that the word is telling him to do, then goes and does it, this is when Jesus reveals Himself to you and when Jesus reveals Himself to you, that is when you begin know Him.
You may have thought that you knew your wife/husband before you married her/him, but you really didn't know her/him until you lived with her/him. You live with each other by communicating to one another. You use words to communicate. I've grown to know my wife over 39 years through her words and actions, and I've grown to know Jesus over the last 28 years plus exactly the same way. Each day I listen to His words and watch what He does, and each day I know Him better. There is One who sticks closer than a brother (Prov 18:24) and thank God, Jesus is His name.
If you really want to know Him, there is really only one way to do it. You must look into the Word of God (the BIBLE) and join Him there by doing what it says. As soon as you do it, Jesus shows up and reveals Himself to you, and the more of the word that you do, the more you will know Him. There is no better place for a man to be, knowing Jesus but better still, being known by Him.
Jesus said in Matt 7:21-23, " Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, BUT he who does the will of My Father in heaven( what is the Father's will? To know His Son!). Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your Name? And then I will declare to them, I NEVER KNEW YOU, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!" (or you who does anything apart from the Word and the God over that Word). To do the Word without knowing Jesus personally, is nothing more than religion. Religion doesn't save, Jesus does!!!
Knowing Jesus personally is the relationship God desires for you and all men/women He created. He wants to walk with you and talk with you. Why you ask? Because He wants to reveal Himself to you, by pouring His love upon you so that you can really know Him. When you really know Him, this is when all things are possible, because you can't really believe God until you know Him, and that is what God really wants out of this relationship, a man/woman that will believe Him, because when man believes Him, then God can do what's in His heart to do and that's to love His man.
2 Peter 1:3 says, (I'm saying this like God is speaking directly to you) " My divine power has (past tense) given unto you ALL things that pertain to life and godliness, THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF ME."
Make it your goal to know Him more each and every day. That's His desire for you, make it your desire as well. If you don't know Him then let me intorduce Him to you. His name is Jesus and He is glad to meet you. Now get to know Him and you'll never be the same again. (I have truly preached myself happy in this one!)
"He who has My commandments (words) and keeps (does) them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. (make Myself real to him so that you will know Me) John 14:21
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