To Know Him

The nation of Israel claimed that they "knew" God--right up until the time they were destroyed by the Assyrians and scattered among the nations. (A fitting judgment since they wanted to be just like all the nations.) God, however, kept telling them that they didn't know Him at all--even that they had forgotten Him. God's explanation was simple: "If you actually knew Me, you would be doing good--obeying my commandments, living righteously, helping the poor and oppressed, t...earing down your idols, worshiping Me from your heart, not just performing the rituals. So many today claim to know Him, but their lives say they are deceived. To know Him is to love Him and to love Him is to live lives of obedience to His Word. The Israelites didn't know Him at all. Their lives showed them to be liars. And is there any lie more dangerous than self-deception?