I'm going to do something a little different this week! We have been going through The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn for our Wednesday night services and it has been outstanding! As I was preparing for a word, I felt led to check the titles of the different mysteries and Day 362 just really stood out. I'm going to share that with you here!
THE TIME OF KNOWING
The Teacher led me to the Chamber of Books and removed from one of the shelves a large ancient-looking book in a brown binding.
"Look through it," he said. So I did. "How long do you think it would take you to learn everything that's in this book in depth?"
"In depth? Maybe three months."
"And what about all the books on this shelf?"
There were many books. I did the calculation in my head. "Maybe ten years," I replied.
"And how long to learn what's in every volume in this bookcase?"
"I would guess eighty years."
"Now look at all the bookcases in this chamber. How long do you think it would take you to learn everything that's inside every one of these volumes?"
"Many lifetimes," I said.
"Do you know why God gives us eternity?"
"Why?"
"Because the purpose of our existence is to know God. And so it must be eternity. For eternity is the time it take to know God ... So never make the mistake of thinking that you know everything there is to know about Him. It's when you think you know, that you stop knowing. And if it takes an eternity to know God, then how much is a lifetime of knowledge next to how much there it yet to know?"
"One eternitieth," I said, "one infinitieth ... next to nothing."
"No matter how much you know, there will always be more ... there will always be so much more. No matter how much you know of Him, you've only just begun. And that's how you must always come, as one who doesn't know the half of it, which will always mathematically be the case. So you must come as a little child, as one who knows there's so much more to know, and for whom everything is new. Even the apostle Paul, who knew more of God than anyone else, even he wrote, 'That I might know Him.' If he could say that, how much more we. So never stop seeking Him. Never stop pressing on to know Him ... and to know more of Him ... and more than that. For eternity is the length of time it takes to know Him ... and a lifetime is just the beginning of eternity."
The Mission: Since it will take an eternity for you to know God, there's so much for you to discover. Seek to know Him today as if for the first time.
Psalms 23:6; 27:4; 63; Matthew 18:3-4; Philippians 3:10
This really hit home with me! Philippians 3:10 has always been one of my favorite verses, especially from the Amplified Bible. I knew that if Paul maintained a burning desire to know God more, there MUST be so much more to learn, and I MUST have the same attitude! We have been sharing this blog now for 6 1/2 years now, with 335 words! I KNOW that some of the words we've covered mean so much more than what I originally knew to share! I have an idea that we may be covering some of them again, with a deeper understanding and a broader application! What a great adventure it has been and I hope continues to be for you, too! Here is Hillsong with a song that I really like called "Running" because that's what we will continue to do! Run after all that He is!
Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!
