For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: (Matt. 25:35 KJV)
How joyful it is to gain truth about God and what He does in the life of the Saints. It is a joyful life to know God; the truth, verity, sincerity, ingenuity and honesty of His person and character. When one knows God, there is no doubt that the knowledge of God’s holy person will build blessed assurances and bold confidences in such a person which could easily be mistaken and misunderstood as flagrant arrogance by those who do not know God. The knowledge of God makes the face of a man to shine. (Eccl. 8:1) About knowing God, the Bible says, “And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” (Dan. 11:32). Wow! The knowledge of God commands strength, and that strength is for exploits. The knowledge of God is as drunkenness; it produces a compelling influence that makes one speak, act and perform differently from a natural man. The knowledge, command, influence and presence of God in the life of Paul the Apostle was simply evident and compelling that at the island called Melita, the people “…changed their minds, and said he was a god.” (Acts 28:6) Paul was simply supernatural.
This is the product of the knowledge of God in a person. Nothing makes one strong as knowledge and nothing distinguishes one as understanding. A man of knowledge has natural confidence…he knows what he’s doing and can easily predict its outcome. The failing in knowledge is inability to predict the outcome of what one is doing. Knowledge is lacking when outcome is unpredictable. This is what the knowledge of God eliminates in a man’s enterprise; when one knows God; he can do his business in the knowledge of God and can quietly assuredly guaranty the outcome. This is the glory of the Saints…to command results.
Our blessed Lord Jesus, boisterous and drunken with the knowledge of God arrived late at the home of a certain man named Lazarus, whereas others were mourning, wailing and would not even tamper with a four-day old dead and stinking Lazarus, Jesus said, “Where have you laid him?…it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.” (John 11:34-39) but knowledge (of God and the plan of God) was driving The Lord Jesus; for he knew “This sickness (from which Lazarus had died) is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby” (John 11:4). What do we know of God about what we are going through, be it in health or lack of it, wealth or lack of it; joy or lack of it;…. are we convinced about it by which we can predict its outcome?
The knowledge of God will naturally maintain a man’s stability regardless of all instabilities that may surround him. We must come up to this understanding and gain knowledge of it. The knowledge of God including the needs of God brings tremendous reward; it makes one relevant and provides a future that is great and enriching…Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. (Matt. 25:34 KJV)
