Do You Know God?

Today, as we move into a new week, I just want to restate some things that I mentioned in worship yesterday.

Do you know God? Please don’t answer that too quickly. Many of us say we know God, but our actions speak differently.

1 John 4.20 says “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not see.”

John tells us that God is love and if we love others, God lives within us. But, if we do not love, care, and support others (including the people that we don’t get along with or like), then we really don’t know God b/c He isn’t living within us.

I believe that most of us have a broken relationship with God. Why??? Because we aren’t caring, loving, and support each other. We have done a good job of creating divisions instead of building unity.

So today, I would like to suggest that we step back, take a deep breath, stop focusing on church issues… and let’s repair our relationship with God. And when I mean repairing our relationship with God, I mean repairing our relationship with each others. If we are not caring, supporting, and loving each other, then God is not living within us and we don’t know God.

Let’s work together to know God better through each other.