How to know God

 To Know God

Those who do not know the Bible do not know God. God has told us all

he wants us to know about himself in the Bible. It is possible to be highly

educated, refined, and polished in the modern sense without knowing God. In

fact, some of the most highly educated and gifted people of our generation do

not know God. The reason they do not know God is that they have not been

students of the book in which God reveals himself to the human family.

Paul went to Athens to preach. Those Athenian philosophers spent their

time in learning some new thing, and then imparting this knowledge to others.

But they did not know God! It was not that they were ignoramuses, but they

were not Bible students. Because of their lack of knowledge of the true God

they were idolaters. Paul said to them: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in

all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your

devotions, I found an altar with this inscription. To THE UNKNOWN GOD.

Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." (Acts 17:22,

23.) These fellows knew much, but they did not know God. There are many

of our day who know much, but of the importantthing—that of knowing God— they are ignorant. And this is willful ignorance,

and willful ignorance is the worst kind of ignorance. It is inexcusable.

The world by its own wisdom will never know God. The world by wisdom

cannot know God. "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom

knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them

that believe." (1 Cor. 1:21.) God gave us the Bible so that we may know him.

Of course we have the book of nature. We read: "The heavens declare the

glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day

uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." (Ps. 19:1, 2.) Give

man nature without the Bible, and he becomes a worshiper of nature.