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Devotional: June 29th

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ACQUAINTANCE WITH GOD

Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. - Job 22:21.

Acquaintance with God may not include any more intellectual proposition about Him than the man had before he knew Him, but it has turned doctrines into fact, and instead of the mere hearsay and traditional religion, which is the only religion of millions, it has brought the true heart-grasp of Him, which is the only thing worth calling a knowledge of God. For let me remind you that whilst we may know a science or proposition by the exercise of our understandings in appropriate ways, that is not how we know people. And God is a Person, and to know Him does not mean to understand about Him, but to be on speaking terms with Him, to have a familiar acquaintance with Him, to "summer and winter " with Him, and so, by experience, to verify the things that before were mere doctrines. I want you to ask yourself, and I would ask myself, whether my religion is knowing about God or knowing Him; whether it is all made up of a set of truths which I assent to mainly because I am not sufficiently interested in them to contradict them, or whether these truths have become the very substance of my life. I do not believe in a religion without a dogma - I was going to say, I believe still less in a dogma without religion; and that is the Christianity of hosts of professing Christians. It is as useless as are the dried seeds that rattle in the withered head of a poppy in the autumn, or as the shriveled kernel that sounds in the hollowness of a half-empty nut.

Remember that to know God is to become acquainted with Him, and that only on the path of such familiar, friendly, loving intercourse and communion with Him can men find the confirmation of the truths about Him which make up the eternal revelation of Him in the Gospel. "We know " - that is a valid certainty, arising from experience, and it has as good a right to call itself knowledge as any of the processes by which men come to be sure about the physical facts of this material universe. Nay! I would even go further, and say that the fact that such a continual stream of witnesses, through all the generations, have been able to say, " I have tasted and I have seen that God is good," is to be taken into account by all impartial searchers after truth. And if men want to square their creeds with all the facts of humanity, let them not omit, in their consideration of the claims of Christian evidence, this fact, that from generation to generation men have said, and their lives have witnessed to its truth, "We know in whom we have believed, and that He is able to keep us." We know that we are of God. The whole case for Christianity cannot be appreciated from outside. " Taste and see."

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