What's your experience with God?

Some people disregard experience and emotion, but God created experience and emotions in order for us to live and to know him. We can truly experience God’s presence and have a relationship with him. We can even connect to him with our emotions. 

However, experiences and emotions can lie to us. We can easily misinterpret things! So, instead of denying them altogether, we want to connect to the Holy Spirit and be led by him! Then he can speak to us through our experiences and emotions and not just through our knowledge. Of course, our mind can lie to us too! We also need Holy Spirit to guide our understanding, something that Paul called “the Mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16).

We don’t just want to know about God. We want to know God firsthand and experience him. It’s like someone who lived in the tropics and had only read about snow or had seen pictures of it. You can learn all about snow from others, but it’s totally different to actually experience it for yourself. Then it’s personal. It’s like this with God. We can learn about him from others or by reading the Bible, but he also wants us to know him personally- even by experiencing him!

You can learn all about snow from others, but it’s totally different to actually experience it for yourself. Then it’s personal. It’s like this with God.

Once you’ve experienced God it changes how you believe. One time after Jesus had given a difficult message and people were leaving he asked the disciples if they were leaving too. They replied, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68). They had experienced Jesus and knew that there was no where else to go. Their understanding had been backed up with experience with Jesus.