To know God

An invitation, before anything else — to know the God who made you, and who has not remained hidden. Read slowly. There is no hurry here.

Jeremiah 9:23–24

The easiest and most difficult thing

A. W. Tozer opened one of his books with a sentence that has never let me go:

“To know God is at once the easiest and most difficult thing in the world.” A. W. Tozer

It is the easiest thing in the world because God is not in hiding. He has written His signature across the heavens, pressed His law upon the conscience, and spoken plainly in His Word. A child can know Him.

And it is the most difficult thing in the world because to know God is not to gather facts about Him. It is to meet a Person — and that meeting asks something of us. The same Scripture that invites us to boast in nothing except this, that we understand and know the Lord, will not let us keep Him at the safe distance of mere information.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

A restlessness you were born with

Long before a person ever goes looking for God, there is a sense that something is missing — a homesickness for a country we have never seen. Solomon named it plainly: God has put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11). We are made in the image of God, the imago Dei, and the image always longs for the One it reflects.

Blaise Pascal described it as a God-shaped vacuum in every heart — an emptiness no created thing can finally fill. We try to fill it with success, with love, with pleasure and possessions, and each one leaves the ache exactly where it was. Augustine, looking back over a long and restless life, finally understood why:

“Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.” Augustine of Hippo

That restlessness is not your enemy. It is a mercy. It is the gentle pull of the One who made you, drawing you home.

Hebrews 1:1–3

God has made Himself known

If knowing God depended on our climbing up to Him, the longing would only deepen into despair. But the heart of the gospel is that God came down. He has spoken — not in riddles, but in a Person. To see Jesus is to see God; to know Jesus is to know God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:1–5 · KJV

The light that shines in the darkness has a name. He entered the world He had made, and though many did not recognize Him, to everyone who received Him He gave the right to become a child of God.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:9–14 · KJV

This is the wonder at the center of everything: the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The God you were made to know has made Himself knowable, in Jesus Christ.

Romans 10:9–10

How a person comes to know God

Knowing God is not earned; it is received. Scripture tells the truth about us — that we have all sinned and fallen short of His glory, and that our sin has separated us from the God we were made for. But it tells a far greater truth about Him: that in love He sent His Son to bear our sin, to die in our place, and to rise again, conquering death.

What remains is our response. It is not complicated, and it is not reserved for the religious. It is the simple, honest turning of the whole self toward Christ — to trust Him, and to confess Him as Lord:

“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9–10

To confess Him and to believe — that is to come home. You do not have to understand everything to begin. You have only to come, just as you are, to the One who has been waiting.

Romans 10:13

Today, if you hear His voice

“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 3:15

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13

If, as you have read, you sense God drawing you, you can answer Him now — in your own words. Tell Him you believe. Ask Him to forgive you. Receive Jesus as Lord. There is no special language required, only an honest heart.

If you’ve made this decision, or want to talk with someone, we’d love to hear from you.

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