Knowing God

“Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?”  Knowing can be considered in part or truly perceived and conceived wholly as both gift and a blessing but also considered a curse, something to be avoided, frowned upon, is unreliable, should be negated as untrue.  True knowledge, the kind that comes from the heart, is inspired by Jesus, given to us by the Holy Spirit, can never change or be adapted or conformed to our own personal logic or reasoning but rather, leads us to the greatest gifts of freedom, goodness, beauty, trust, and truth. This knowledge, of knowing God really, more intimately, from the heart and not simply from books helps us to better understand and acknowledge who we are and who we are meant to be.  We are God’s beloved children, His prized possession, guarded as the apple of His eye, the blessed fruit and work of His hands, the love of His life, the constant thought of His heart, what causes Him to rejoice, celebrate and say, “I am your God, and you are my people.”  This knowledge is not faint or fading but growing and alive in us.  Even if you don’t believe it, fail to perceive it, choose not to understand it, or decide not to know it, it doesn’t change the fact that it is all true.  God love us, He loves you with a love that is eternal that you could never change even if you choose to.  Knowing the Lord, really knowing Him as the eternal God head knowledge given to us in Spirit and Truth helps us to experience, truly experience the intimate felt knowledge given to us in Spirit and Truth in and through the Gospel, the Proclaimed Word, in and through the Eucharist the Proclaimed Word made Flesh and in and through the Church, our Mother Mary, the Sacraments and All the Holy Angels and Saints, we truly encounter Christ, the Wisdom and Knowledge of God that suffers for love of us but loves us for the sake of knowing us.  This knowledge heals what is broken and hurting, lifts what has fallen from grace, restores what was made ugly through sin, seeks out what is lost, stolen, or given away and brings back to life what has died in us.  This knowledge wants you to know, believe and trust in the love God has for us and the personal, specific, and intimate love He has just for you.  To truly know God this way, is to truly know love.