…the people who know their God will be strong and take action.

These words burn in my bones.
I look and find many who almost fit the bill.

You see, there are lots who know about their God.
They have attended the classes and memorized the Scriptures and have their own seat in a sanctuary near you, but there is a chasm yawning between knowing God and knowing a b o u t God.

To say it another way - saber no es conocer.

Knowing God - face to face, first name basis knowing - will lead to standing…not on my own ideals or thoughts or plans or clever platitudes but on Him. Deep, beautiful Him - I will never plumb the depths of all that He is and all that I have in Him. But knowing Him roots me in truth and I stand.

I STAND…
not in my strength, not in my righteousness, not in my morality.

I STAND IN HIM.

If I don’t stand in Him, I will bow to golden calves erected in His name and for His glory, or so I tell myself.

Golden calves can always be validated by those who have given their earrings for their creation.
This is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from Egypt to rescue you!

Knowing about isn’t enough. It doesn’t transform; it bloats.

The longer I live, the less surprised I am by the fact that it was the church folk who killed Jesus and thought they were doing God a favor.