For awhile now (at least the last few months), I’ve been wrestling with the concept of knowing God. Knowing Him better. Knowing Him more. The concept has manifest in various forms in that time…sometimes it’s during my preparation for leading my Platoon (Men’s Group), sometimes it’s in a book I’m reading, this last time it was in my daily devotionals. I’m learning that when a topic keeps coming up like that I must need to pay attention…it must be God trying to get my attention (and I often wonder if I’m just not a very good listener).

This week I started reading out of 2 Peter and there it was again…right up front:

May God bless you with his special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better. As we know Jesus better,his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! (2 Peter 1: 2-3,NLT, emphasis mine)

Seems so simple right? So what am I wrestling with? I’m wrestling with the how. How do I get to know God “better and better”? What are the practical things I should be doing to make that happen? This passage makes a couple of things pretty clear:

1. Getting to know God is a process.
2. Getting to know God has its rewards.
3. Getting to know God is something every Christ follower should be doing.

As I’ve been wrestling with this process of getting to know God better personally it has changed my perspective on spiritual disciplines (I know…yuck!). Prayer, reading Scripture, silence, fasting, service, loving others, Communion…all of it takes on a different meaning when I look at each one as a way for me to get to know God better. I’m not just praying a rote prayer…I’m talking to God and getting to know Him. I’m not just reading a book in the Bible…I’m getting to know Him better. I’m not just serving others…well, you get the point.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that God is revealing Himself to me as I make the effort. And I’m getting to know myself better too.

So how about you? How are you getting to know God better? I’m looking for anything to help me along the way (be forewarned, if you give me a good one I will be stealing it)…

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