Acquaint now thyself with God

'Acquaint now thyself with God'

— Job 22:21

Who is God? All true saving faith must begin with a real, spiritual heart knowledge of the one true and living God. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent’ (John 17:3). It is not possible for a person to be saved until he knows God as he has revealed himself in Holy Scripture. If you are interested in your own soul, it would be most wise to consider this question: who is God? And the only place where you can find the answer to that question is in Holy Scripture.

On one occasion Martin Luther, the great German Reformer, said to Erasmus, ‘Your thoughts of God are too human.’ It was a very solemn accusation, but it was true. Our Lord said to the religious leaders of his day, ‘Ye neither know me, nor my Father’ (John 8:19). And I lay this charge against the preachers and religious leaders of our day: they do not know the God of the Bible. ‘Their thoughts of God are too human. This is the charge which God himself brings against this religious generation: ‘Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself (Ps. 50:21).

I am not interested in knowing the god of this day, the god who is popular in the religious world, I want to know the one true and living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ‘My soul panteth for the living God,’ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The god of this day no more resembles the one true and living God than a flickering candle resembles the glory of the noonday sun. The god with whom most men are familiar is a weak, pathetic, frustrated and defeated figment of man’s imagination. He was born and came forth from the hearts of evil men.