It's that time of year again, New Year's resolutions. For those that make them the question is how
long will it last? Most don't make it
past January but it doesn't hurt to try.
I would like to challenge you to try something different. We'll call it a quest. The quest is this: pursue hard after God this
year.
Let's start with a few questions. How well do you know God? How much could you write about God? Would you be able to write a sentence, a whole
paragraph, fill up a page? How accurate
would what you write be? How practical
or useful would it be? Those are all
questions with which I hope you wrestle.
God wants us to know Him.
Consider what Jesus says in John 17:3 - this is eternal life that they
know You are the only true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. A lot of us think of eternity in many
different ways. Some think of the
splendor of heaven, the pearly gates the streets of gold, asking your favorite
Bible characters questions and other thoughts about what might or might not happen
in heaven. Jesus said however, eternal
life is knowing God. That seems to be a lot different from how we
think of heaven. God give us a lifetime
here on earth to get to know Him and then eternity to know Him further. Since God is transcendent and
incomprehensible it will take an eternity to know Him.
I love what Jeremiah says in Jeremiah 9:23-24 - if you
boast, don't boast about your wisdom strength, or wealth, boast alone that you
know and understand God who practices love justice and righteousness in the
earth. It seems like we waste a lot of
time in things that do not matter. Let's
make 2014 different from every other year.
Pursue hard after God.