To Know God Is To Love God

Today is a great day as it marks the beginning of our AIM Fall trimester at Metro and I get the honor of teaching the Attributes of God class for our first year students. I love this class and can remember how in awe of God I felt the first time I was studying and preparing to teach it. Here I've been a Christian ever since I can remember and yet the more I studied the less I realized I knew of or about God. That's how enlightening this class was for me and the students that very first trimester. The good news is that we're starting it all over again tonight at MLC...and I so look forward to sharing the insights and revelations with a new group of students.

When it's all said and done over the next ten weeks of class, each student will have gained a greater knowledge for who God is, from a faith perspective and a higher exercise of reason. We'll learn the very existence of God is not merely that there is "something out there" - a force, an idea - to which the name "God" may be applied, but that there is a self-existent, personal Being who is the creator of all things and who transcends the entire creation, but is also present in every part of it.

One's faith in God is not anti-knowledge or anti-reason as the Bible doesn't say "for we walk by faith, not by thinking..." Quite the contrary, Matthew 22:37 tells us to "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." Thus our faith in God is a higher exercise of reason and is not just faith, but "a faith" in God that reveals Himself to us on so many levels.

Once the argument of God's existence is settled, it's then we are able to connect with a powerful God whose is responsible for the Cosmos. An intelligent God who has pieced together and designed our lives. A necessary God of which all of creation depends on for their very existence. An infinite and unique God who is not bound by time or space. A moral and holy God who honors the moral compass of right and integrity within man, and a God who rules and reigns in the lives of those who put their total dependence on and in Him.

A. W. Tozer writes; "Where every man on earth to become an Athiest it would not affect God at all. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfection. To doubt Him takes nothing away."

On this PrayDay, may you commit all your cares and burdens to God, and may you place your trust in Him alone, for knowing God and being known of God makes you love Him all the more.

The Attributes of God Class (Sanctuary)

Men's Fraternity - The Great Adventure

Life Interrupted - Women's Study

Marriage on the Rock

Single and Parenting

Starting Point

Life Kidz Children's Ministry

Infuz Youth Ministry