what my plan was for today, can you tell me? If I asked you what my favorite color was, can you tell me? How about my birthday? What I ate for last night?
Obviously, I would have to tell you these things directly myself.
So if we want to learn more about God, how come the first person we run to is everyone else but God?
2007-11-10 02:55:13 · 10 answers · asked by Jedidiah 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Edit:
“So if we want to INTIMATELY KNOW God,” not “learn more ABOUT God”…
2007-11-10 02:57:26 · update #1
Donna,
The question was for my brothers and sisters in Christ. Are you one? If you're not, it would be nice to have you with us.
2007-11-10 03:01:46 · update #2
Gosh. Either I have many siblings in Christ here who pose to be not, or they don't know how to read.
2007-11-10 03:07:50 · update #3
I couldn’t agree with you more, AHA. ^_^ Thank you for your comment.
But I wanted to know why the FIRST person that we run to is everyone else but God. Explanation by example: if you want to get to know me, why do you go talk to someone else first instead of coming to me directly? And why is this such a habit?
2007-11-10 03:19:36 · update #4
Only God knows all those things about you. He is intimately aquainted with all our ways, thoughts, and plans.
The reason we run to everyone else but God, is because we are scared. We are scared in trusting someone so big, that we can't see. Example, growing up your parents let you down and you couldn't trust them, therefore you found other things to trust in. God would help us if we would just reach out to Him, but it's hard to trust when you have never had anything to trust in. Yet He still patiently waits for us to seek Him. And is so gracious and forgiving when we mess up. God bless~
2007-11-10 03:09:32 · answer #1 · answered by Stylegirl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
\ /\ / hen we're young we're quite dependent.
.\/ \/ When we get older we are too, but we should be independent. When we are independent we become interdependent, working together as independent adults. A few actually do. Mature Christians work with God, interdependent, He is always by our side and we by His, but I guess many are dependent on gurus/teachers still. The prophecy, "...no one will have to teach them" can have a partial fulfillment whenever we are ready as, "Now is the accepted time" can always be true, in a way, I think. OK, so I'm still young.
2007-11-10 06:34:44 · answer #2 · answered by hb12 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
confident we'd desire to continually be happy in all we do. permit all that ye do be completed in love. I Corinthians sixteen:14 the yank common version genuine Christian convince others to serve God via their way of existence being shown to others. That ye may be harmless and innocuous, the sons of God, with out rebuke, interior the process a crooked and perverse us of a, between whom ye shine as lights furniture interior the international; Philippians 2:15 King James version conserving forth the notice of existence; that i will rejoice interior the day of Christ, that I even have not run in ineffective, neither worked in ineffective. Philippians 2:sixteen King James version
2016-10-02 00:17:02 · answer #3 · answered by ullrich 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of loving God is loving others, Jesus said: as you have done it unto the least of these my brothers, you have done it unto me. He also said: wherever two or more of you are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them. Any attempt to separate God from community is an attempt to separate yourself from God, because acountability and discussion is what also keeps people from running off on their own and remaking God in their own image. If you love Jesus, you love the Church, because the Church is the body of Christ, it is how he expresses and presents himself to the world, so as Christians we need to learn from it and at the same time correct it if it starts to stray from Christ, its head. God chooses to communicate to people and through people, so whatever you find out for yourself from God you ought to give to others, and whatever others learn from God, you need to receive from them. The Bible itself is an example of this, it was received by others, and we receive it from them. The Bible also says: How can you love God whom you have not seen if you do not love your neighbor whom you have seen?
2007-11-10 03:11:38 · answer #4 · answered by AHA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question, dear one!
When I want to learn more about God, I talk to Him and read His Word.
God bless!
2007-11-10 03:12:34 · answer #5 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the question.you hav'um pinned on this one.
I have learned over the years to get my information direct from God's word.I don't ask
blind people for directions.
2007-11-10 03:04:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Many claim to be experts in this, then go on to prove they are not.
I recommend The Watchtower bible and tract society.
2007-11-10 03:03:15 · answer #7 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Organized religion is about power.
2007-11-10 03:02:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
We must read our bible and pray every single day.
2007-11-10 03:00:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Just how do you do that? How do you have a relationship with something that isn't there? I'm just wondering...
2007-11-10 03:00:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋