New York, New York

There was always something that fascinated me about New York City, I never quite knew what it was, but I loved it, tho I had never been I always dreamed about it, and dreamed about moving there, and maybe living there someday. I loved to watch any movie that was set in NYC. I would go to the bookstore and look at the photography books of all of the buildings and architecture, that was with in the city. I wanted to know everything that there was to know about the city, and see every picture possible, to see what living in the city was like. And even many of the first books I ever read were about NYC. I did so much research and I felt like I had already discovered so much about the City, that my desire to go there and actually see it , was quickly diminishing.

I say all that to say this. I knew most everything thing there was to know about NYC, and I had never set foot in the city. But a few years ago, I was given the opportunity to actually go to New York City and see what it really was like. And the pictures and the books and the movies, did nothing to describe what the city was actually like!

With all of that said, Sometimes those of us that have grown up in the church, in christian homes. Have been told all of our lives, about God, and what he is like, and what he can do, and what he can't do. We are told all about the scripture and the word of God, and the miracles of Jesus. So we have all of this knowledge of what we think God is like. And we don't know him on a personal level. We think that we know so much about him, that we don't need to know, him, because we already "think" we know everything!

Let me stop right there and just say " NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE THINK WE KNOW ABOUT GOD, WE WILL NEVER FULLY KNOW GOD" Our finite minds can never comprehend, our infinite GOD!

Anyways, knowing about God, and actually knowing him, are 2 completely different, things!
Just like when I stepped foot in NYC, it completely blew all my theories out the door, The moment we step foot into the presence of God, He will completely demolish every thought or idea we ever had about him. He is greater then we could ever know!

Now this is where I think we have to be careful!
Just like I didn't step off the plane in New York City, and say " Hold it NYC! I have my list of rules or regulations, on what I was told, or taught that your were, and you have stick to them! NO! So we can't do that with God, we can't put him in our box, of Oh he can do this but not this, God will only work if you do this, or you have to dress a certain way or look a certain way, for God to accept you at church. No God will never EVER fit in your box, so don' t even try it, you will just waist your time.

To tie this all up. I just want to be brutally honest, I for a long time thought that I had a relationship with God, because I knew everything "i thought" there was to know about him. I assumed that the more I know about him, the better I will know him. I would spend my time studying scripture, and not in prayer time with him.

I don't want to know about God, I want to know him!
I just want to encourage, whom ever deciedes to read this, to really deeply, and fervantly seek God, and try with all your heart to know who God is, and to know him!

My deepest desire is to know God more. I pray that you do too!