Isaiah 58:2b — … And delight to know My ways, ...
It is good to know God’s ways. It’s better to know God and walk in His ways. There’s a certain sense of satisfaction in discovering God’s ways. I can become proud of what I know. I can search to know God in ways that others don’t so that I might elevate myself. I fell good when I win an argument with someone about the things of God … but how much of God did they actually gain from me. Knowledge can puff me up but true love is not puffed up. True knowledge of God will bring glory to God.
God wants us to know Him. In the end, it is much more important that God knows me than how much I know about God. The true way to know God’s ways is to walk in them. This can be a journey filled with mistakes and stumbles but I get to know Him and be known by Him as I walk the path with Him. Knowing God’s way means walking His path. For God, knowledge is practical … so it should be for me.
Lord, forgive me where I have sought to know Your ways without wanting to walk them. Forgive me for wanting to seem wise in the eyes of others but in doing so missed true wisdom. Lord, help me to truly know Your ways and to delight in learning them. Give me the courage to walk the paths you set before me. Some lessons are easier and some more difficult but if Your on the path, I want to walk with You … because I want to truly know You. Thank You that there is grace and joy in the journey.
[Also meditate on: 2 Sam. 22:29-31; 1 Kings 8:54-61; Job 42:1-6; Prov. 1:7, 5:21; Is. 53:1-6; John 14:6; 1 Cor. 1:20-31, 8:1-3; Heb. 10:19-25; 1 John 2:1-6]
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