The knowledge of God is really the end of human existence. It is what life is all about. It is the knowledge of God that will lift God’s people from the doldrums of spiritual mediocrity to the cutting edge of life-changing and world-changing power. Daniel 11:32 says, “the people who know their God will display strength and take action.” So the knowledge of God should be the number one priority for everyone of us here.
There is a tremendous difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God primarily is a matter of information. Knowing God involves first hand personal experience. To illustrate: suppose that by divine foreknowledge I could tell you all about the girl of your dreams that you are going to marry some day. Suppose I could tell you everything about her: what she looks like, her likes and dislikes, her strengths and weaknesses, her talents, her intellectual abilities, her spiritual maturity. You would know all about her, and yet would you say that you knew her? Well, not at all.
There would not be any personal relationship between you and her. In fact, you might even say, “Wow! Is she going to be my wife? I can hardly wait to get to know her!” So, you see, you would know all about her but as yet you would not really know her. Someday, though, she will walk into your life and then you will learn to know her. It is the same way with God. We can know a lot about God and yet not really know God or know him well. You might get all the knowledge about God but to know God wholly is your personal task. Just like the illustration you might know everything about the girl you want to marry through a divine intervention perhaps but unless you meet and know her personally, you won't have the relationship that you want to cherish. You’d have to do the loving and the caring and the building yourself. Nobody else can do this for you. You will get a lot of information about God so that you can know more about him but only you can learn to know God for yourself.
A lot of times you hear people in our culture say something like this: “You can’t know anything about God. If God does exist, you can’t say anything about what he is like.” For such people, God is just sort of a characterless force or a principle or something. But they cannot say anything about what God is really like. You cannot describe the attributes of God. In reality, however, I believe that such a God would in fact be a non-entity. He wouldn’t be real at all because anything that exists in reality has certain properties or attributes of some kind that describe it and make it what it is. Thus, a thing that had no properties would literally be non-existent. It would be nothing because it would have no descriptive properties to make it the thing that it is.
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