The WORD in ADVENT - Living the Reign here and now #3

Get to know the Lord

First Tuesday in Advent: 4th December, 2018

Isaiah 11: 1-10; Luke 10: 21-24

Living the Reign here and now, necessarily requires that we get to know God, get to know God for real! When we know God for real, our attitudes will be different. There will be no harm done to another in the presence of the Lord. 

Just because someone is different from me, I find a reason to hate that person or keep that person away from me - that is the tendency of the world today. It is a clear sign of people having moved far from the real knowledge of God. 

We have become too sophisticated to perceive the Lord, who is revealed precisely in simplicity. Unless we grow to be children, we will not get to know the Lord truly. We would know things, speak of things, explain complicated theology, solve mysteries and metaphysical issues, invent concepts and discover phenomena, but we will never know God for real! Let us grow to be children and we will get to know God!  

Let us not confuse between knowing about God and knowing God - they are two different things and one can never, never become the other. At times, even the most religious of us, are satisfied with knowing about God, reading up, discussing , arguing, defending, convincing and so on...but fall short of knowing God. Knowing God is getting in touch with God, growing in God's mentality, thinking in the way God would want us to think, seeing things that God would want us to see and hearing those that God would want us to hear. It is only then we begin to live the Reign here and now!