OUR RICHEST TREASURE: INNER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

“…Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:…Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land….” (DEUTERONOMY 1:6, 8)

Large numbers of supposedly sound Christian believers know nothing at all about personal communion with God; and there lies one of the greatest weaknesses of present-day Christianity!

 

The experiential knowledge of God is eternal life (John 17:3), and increased knowledge results in a correspondingly larger and fuller life. So rich a treasure is this inward knowledge of God that every other treasure is as nothing compared with it!

 

may count all things of no value and sacrifice them freely if we may thereby gain a more perfect knowledge of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. This was Paul’s testimony (Phil. 3:7–14) and it has been the testimony of all great Christian souls who have followed Christ from Paul’s day to ours.

 

To know God, it is necessary that we be like God to some degree, for things wholly dissimilar cannot agree and beings wholly unlike can never have communion with each other. It is necessary therefore that we use every means of grace to bring our souls into harmony with the character of God.

 

As we move farther up into the knowledge of Christ, we open new areas of our beings to attack, but what of it? Remember that spiritual complacency is more deadly than anything the devil can bring against us in our upward struggle. If we sit still to escape temptation, then we are being tempted worse than before and gaining nothing by it.

 

  1. W. Tozer