God, our great pursuit

God is our great pursuit.

I am struck today with conviction even as I’m reading through Revelation, that I have been guilty at times of seeking revelation in an immature, and stilted fashion. Often-times I have read the word and felt God speak to me, but it can turn conceited and smug, where I then know things for the sake of being someone who knows. I have been close to gnosticism - seeking higher things for the sake of higher things, rather than the God Who IS higher!

We read the word and engage with the Spirit of God not to know things, but to interact, to know and be known, by the triune God we worship and love. All ‘knowing’ that does not translate in to worship, magnification, connection, transformation, and ultimately a deeper relational walk with the Living One, is empty and self-righteous.

I repent today, and encourage you to do the same if you need to, of head knowledge. I repent of empty revelation. Forgive me Lord where I have sought the revelation rather than the One who reveals, and of whom the revelation speaks. Please, fill me today with Your Spirit of wisdom and revelation, that I might journey again in to the wonder, the magnificence, the majesty and beauty of You and knowing You God.

As I turn again to Revelation, I see in Ch 4:8-11, the four living creatures that are covered in eyes, covered in revelation, in front and behind, declaring “Holy, holy, holy!”, and the elders before the throne cast their crowns at the feet of the Lord, at the feet of Him Who sits on the throne, and declare “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, and honour, and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being.” Let insight never stay only at head knowledge, but always translate to revelation-inspired worship, to awe and greater surrender, as we cast our. lives at the feet of Christ declaring more of You and less of me.