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📖 Bible
Meditation No. 1738
🔆 AATHAVAN –
Monday, 10 November 2025
“And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper.” — Romans 1:28 (NASB)
Knowing about God and knowing God are not the same. Throughout the Bible, we often see expressions such as “knowing God” or “the knowledge of God.”
A person may study in a Bible college, listen to numerous spiritual sermons, and read spiritual messages and books to gain knowledge about God. Yet, even with all this, one may still not truly know God.
Many today who have intellectual knowledge of the Bible have become preachers, teachers, or scholars — but their understanding is often limited to the level of the mind.
If we study the life of Jesus Christ merely as we would study the life stories of Buddha, Gandhi, Karl Marx, Lenin, or any famous leader, we may know about Christ — but we will not truly know Him.
Knowing God is a divine experience. It means living daily in union and fellowship with Him — walking with God as we live with our parents and siblings at home. It is to know His will, to follow His guidance, and to experience His leading in our lives.
Yes, our God is not lifeless — He is alive even today! He acts and speaks just as a living person does. To recognize and live in that reality is what it truly means to know God.
But as today’s verse says, because people did not desire to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they would do what is not proper. (Romans 1:28 NASB)
When people fail to know God personally, the Apostle Paul describes how their minds become corrupted with every kind of unrighteousness:
“...filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful.”— Romans 1:29–31 (NASB)
No matter how many worship services we attend, unless we truly know God, these sinful characteristics will continue to remain in us.
Dearly beloved, many of us who read this may have been born into Christian families. Yet, we may only know about God — not truly know God. But there is a higher experience — the experience of personally knowing Him.
If we sincerely desire this experience, God is eager to give it to us. That is why He came into this world — so that we might know Him personally and be transformed into His likeness.
When we truly know Him, our inner nature will change and become pleasing to God.
Let us therefore pray with a genuine heart:
“Loving Lord, I desire to know You in my life and to live in fellowship with You. I confess all my sins that stand as obstacles between You and me. Please accept me as Your son/daughter.”
God will reveal Himself to us — and make us a new creation.
📜 Message by: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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