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This site is designed to provide information on Scriptural subjects and is a site that may complement many other biblically-oriented sites on the Web. The subjects are intended for the genuine seeker who wants to know God, as He is portrayed in the pages of the Bible. The Bible’s reliability as absolutely truthful, and as the only authority for Christian living is assumed, unequivocally.
The most important task that any human being can engage in is knowing God. J.I. Packer has written:
The most important task that any human being can engage in is knowing God. J.I. Packer has written:
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the ‘eternal life’ that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. ‘This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent’ (John 17:3). What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, delight, and contentment, than anything else? Knowledge of God. ‘Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me’ (Jer. 9:23f.). What, of all the states God ever sees man in, gives Him most pleasure? Knowledge of Himself. ‘I desire . . . the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings,’ says God (Hos. 6:6) . . . Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord . . . What makes life worth while is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance; and this the Christian has, in a way that no other man has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?[1]
What are the benefits of Knowing God? C.H. Spurgeon provides an answer:
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.[2]
The proper study of the Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the doings, and the existence of the great God which he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can comprehend and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go on our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumbline cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought “I am but of yesterday and know nothing.”[3]
May the reader find blessing as he/she seeks God and His counsel which, in this dispensation, is found only in the pages of the 66 Books that make up the Holy Scriptures.
Soli Deo Gloria
Soli Deo Gloria
[1] J. I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1973), pp. 29-30.
[2] C. H. Spurgeon, as cited by Pink, The Attributes of God, p. 80.
[3] Sermon on Mal. 3:6, by C. H. Spurgeon, as cited in Pink, The Attributes of God, p. 80.
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