October 12, 2007
Just as it is important for us to learn how to listen to God, it is also important for
us to learn how to understand who He
is. Many of us came to know God by what we have been told or taught about Him
from our parents, Sunday-school teachers and preachers. How we consider who God
is today can be greatly influenced by the past influences these folks have had on
us. How we see God may be based upon how they
saw Him. This could be accurate or not. It’s easy to see how our understanding
of who God is can be distorted by the attitudes, behaviors, and the
instructions of others.
From birth we established a mental system of choices;
right-wrong, good-bad, positive and negative. The choices we start out making
tend to stay with us throughout our lives. Thankfully, our choices can be
changed though, and it is the presence of the Holy Spirit who helps us to be
convicted of the proper choices God wants us to make. The Holy Spirit will
teach us truly who God is and what He wants for us if we seek Him.
How can we come to a better understanding of God? Through His
Word. The Bible is the source of our
correct teaching and our understanding. By our reading of the Bible daily and
becoming involved in some form of Bible study we learn first hand who God is,
and how we are to relate to Him. When we mix our reading of His Word with our
prayers to the Holy Spirit for more knowledge of God we receive our supernatural
understanding.
There is no better place to start or start-over learning
about God than at the very beginning! Start reading Genesis again for yourself
and pray for your better, correct understanding of God. The psalmist wrote in
(Psalm 119:33, 34) “Teach me, O Lord, the
way of Your statues, and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and
shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.”