Knowing God is knowing yourself!

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
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It is difficult to believe in what you don't know. It is also much more difficlult to believe in a stranger.

When Jesus came into this world, he had the aim of teaching us who the God we believe in, such that we may understand him and his ways. But this was difficlut because even the few selected desciples did not understand Jesus.

Religions have caused alot of confusion and misconception on who the God we serve is, and this no wonder has led to more divisions than the unity intended in human beings!

At this time what we need is not religion but a good relationship with God. Jesus never created any religion. In fact he said that whoever is not against us if for us! (never hate anybody just because he is not believing in your religion).

Much as we all know that religion is just a means of communicating with God (where each religion takes the simplest means through which its followers can have a better relationship with their God). Humanity has instead taken religion to destroy the intended relationship.

I intend not to attack any religion here. In fact I support all religions with due respect. I only differ with the level at which each group is struggling to create enemity among the believer to the extent that each one looks at the other as a group of pagans and a people without God!

Ok, we have a duty to spread the word of God but it is not our duty to fight for our God, afterall we seek protection from him, not us to protect him!

I believe it is our duty to understand the nature of God if we are to realise unity amongst us.

In all my previous teaching I have been hinting on God being a Spirit. The more we realise that the God we serve is a Spirit then perhaps some of these misunderstadings will be reduced.

Some religions have created a misconception among belivers that God is a human being or something related to a human being. Believers have been forced to belive that their God is seated somewhere up in a palace and with one hand waiting to pass judgement while the other one is for peace.

Ok, I may not disagree with them. We should also analyse the omnipresence and the omnipotence of God.

All religions believe that God is the beginning and the end, that he occupies all space (he is everywhere -even where you are now!). We should also believe that God is full of love.

Man was created in the image and true likeness of God (Gen 1:26). I mentioned somewhere here that God is a Spirit. So to understand the true nature of God we should look at him in his very nature -a Spirit!

If we also look at ourself in the spiritual realm, we will realise that we are able to do what God intended us to do.

The problem is that man tends to fear. After eating on the forbbiden fruit, (The tree that gives nowlegde of what is good and what is bad).
If you analyse the fall of man in genesis, you realise that after eating on the tree, man then started to fear (Gen 3:7-11). He realised henceforth that he was naked! He started hiding himself away from God and 'covering' himself away from shame.

One scientist observed that man is the only wild animal. That while the other animals live in harmony, man is busy destroying their peace. He jumped out of the cage and went further in the wilderness looking for peace that he himself is destroying. At the end he starts to fear himself and setting fences around and against himself.

I beg to leave this topic here now for one simple reason, let you please first read the chapter quoted above in genesis and analyse it. We will then begin from here when you have made a personal judgement. Perhaps this will help you to come back to God, after you have known who you are!

But know that you are the image of God, the question is how are you reflecting that image!

Our Lord Jesus commanded us to love our God and to love our fellow human beings as we do to ourselves. These are the two Golden laws. In whatever you do, please ask yourself if you are obeying those laws.

For instance, before you could go out to insult that bad debtor, or 'showing a lesson' to that woman who went away with your husband, ask your self, are you obeying the law of God?

If we do this then we will realise universal peace and understanding.