new era

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 “This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.”    Mark 7:6 (NKJV)

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We spend a lot of time and money gaining information and things about our favorite celebrities.  We may even get to the point where we feel that we know them in a personal way.  If we were to meet them face to face, what would we say to them?  Would we really know them?

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Do we really know Jesus or do we only know about Jesus?

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There are some who only know about Jesus, that is, we know some facts about Jesus.  We may even commit some Bible verses to our memory, and perhaps we attend Church on a regular basis, but we have never allowed the truth to become our personal reality.  We have knowledge about Him in our heads without allowing the truth to penetrate our hearts.

 

It can be easy for us to mistakenly substitute religion for a real relationship with Jesus Christ and think that is enough, but until we have made Him our Lord, religious facts will do us no good.  There is a difference between knowing Jesus and knowing about Jesus.

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“This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.”  Mark 7:6 (NKJV)

 

Knowing Jesus Christ means that we believe and accept in our heart the sacrifice that He made on our behalf.  2 Corinthians 5:21   (NKJV)   “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”    We have asked Him to be Lord of our lives.  “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”  John 1:12 (NKJV);   to know Jesus Christ is to enter into a relationship with Him. 

 

“We can change to the truth, but we cannot change the truth. So, in the upcoming years, let us walk it out in faith.  Let us find joy and live it.  Let us dream and do, grow and be blessed, because He has brought us a mighty long way, and He is not done with us yet.  Amen.