Transformational Knowledge - God is Love

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His love endures forever.





Psalm 136:1






A little late this morning. Cable maintenance. I guess that is pretty sad. I am up before the cable guys are done!

Today a last discussion to wrap up the transformational knowledge and how this least to a better understanding of Jesus and ultimately a better understanding of myself. The information below is a paraphrase of some of the material in "The Gift of Being Yourself". I could not add anything to make it better.

We can hold fast to the testimony of the scriptures for our faith and knowledge of God. As valuable as this objective knowing is, JI Packer reminds us that even "a little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him. Transformational knowing of God comes from the intimate, personal knowing of Divine love.

Because God is love, God can only be known through love. To know God is to love God, and to love God is to know God (1 John 4:7-8). The Christian God is known only in devotion, not objective detachment.

This is why Paul's prayer is that we may know the love of Christ and so be filled with the utter fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19).

This is transformational knowing.

Knowing God also requires surrender.

Thomas Merton writes that "we must know the truth, we must love the truth we know and we must act according to the measure of our love. Truth is God himself who cannot be known apart from love and cannot be loved apart from surrender to his will."

Genuine knowing demands a response.

To know God demands that we be willing to be touched by Divine love.

To be touched by God's love is to be forever changed.

To surrender to Divine love is to find (my) soul's home..the place and identity for which (I) yearn in every cell of (my) being, today on the Adventure in Middle Grove.