Knowing

June 10, 2025

There is a difference between knowing the words of the Bible, and living out the words of the Bible.

There is a difference between believing something about God and knowing the person of God.

Do you even think about God as an actual person?

If you don’t realize that all three — God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are existing, living persons — albeit far superior persons — you won’t see any need to meet them.

I can understand that.

Still and all, so many people like myself continue to try to share with others their experiences with God through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, only wanting to introduce you all to them… Yet, too many times our confirmation of that truth is rejected out of hand. I know they have their reasons, but they seem to me to be more like excuses.

Here is a parable related to all this:

Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business… — Matthew 22:1–5, Berean Standard Bible, BSB

However, living as if the Trinity are amorphous vapors, mysterious ideas, existing somewhere apart from the world we live in, why would anyone consider the need to meet them, let alone, to possibly start a relationship with them?

Look, there is a difference between knowing about God and having a personal relationship with the person of God.

In the Garden of Eden God walked and talked with Adam and Eve.

We often forget that fact.

Because Mankind lost that relationship is the probable reason.

Yet, that relationship is what Jesus came to restore.

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross. — Philippians 2:6–8, BSB.

Now, readers, please understand that the song and its words written below are not just idle talk but real to life. They are the author’s true experience, a restoration of that personal relationship with God — the same being experienced by many others like the man singing:

Alan Jackson — In The Garden (Live)

I come to the garden alone,

While the dew is still on the roses;

And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,

The Son of God discloses.

Refrain:

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own,

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice

Is so sweet the birds hush their singing;

And the melody that He gave to me

Within my heart is ringing. [Refrain]

I’d stay in the garden with Him

Tho’ the night around me be falling;