Recently I’ve been thinking about ‘more of God’. Knowing, understanding more of the who and how of the Lord. We really do need to understand the who of the Lord, but we also need to know how to express this. Then the rabbit trail took me to the question of… if we don’t apply and act on what we already know, will there be room for ‘more’? What will we do with the ‘more’ when we aren’t expressing our already known?
“(prayer by Paul) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him,” (Ephesians 1:17)
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. — We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.” (A>W> Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (Harper &Roe, p. 9)
‘More’ needs a context and this scripture plus the Tozer quote gives the best definition and context of ‘more’ that I could find. If it isn’t yours, then you need to know what yours is. Equally important is to understand how ‘more’ is expressed.
Obviously, one of the components in this is your motivation for wanting ‘more’. If you want more then why, what are you going to do with further, deeper understanding? I don’t have your answer, but for me, the reason I want more is that I become a better me, that understanding and growth is expressed, and I want the foundation of my expression to be the Lord and who I am becoming. Though it may sound like an obvious statement… I also want more to be visible in my relationship with the Lord.Vague?
I do believe that wanting ‘more’ of the Lord is a positive. It is part of parcel of our daily search, growth in my world. This is because it is a high priority and part of what defines my day.
“As Paul wrote (Col. 2:6), “Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.” We received Him by faith, and so we should w
alk daily by faith in Him. And we should love one another, as He commanded us."
(bible.org/seriespage/lesson-9-knowing-god-more-deeply-ephesians-1:15-17)
