This week, as we dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we'll look today at the biblical concept of understanding and how it relates to experiencing God.

May God shift your perspective today and bring you into greater fullness of life

in your relationship with Him. What's beautiful about God is that no matter where you're at

in your walk with Him, there's always more. The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth.

Psalm 145.

For most believers, understanding and experience seem to be mutually exclusive.

Theology and spirituality are believed to be separate,

and while one might help the other, they don't belong together as one wholehearted pursuit of God.

The truth is that understanding and experience couldn't be more intertwined. In fact, one does not

truly exist without the other. To experience

God is to have understanding. To understand God is to experience. It's for this reason Jesus said

in John 4, 23, and 24, but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshippers will

worship the Father and Spirit and Truth. For the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. God longs for us to know him

in spirit and truth, in experience and understanding. I can't truly know someone by just reading a book

about them. I can't say I know C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther, or Dietrich Bonhofer just because I've read

a biography or some of their works. It is the same with God. Scripture is intended to give

us understanding about God and guide us into true relationship with Him. Its words are intended

to be an avenue to the author who wrote them. And if we're to

adopt a perspective of gaining as much understanding about our Heavenly Father as possible,

in order to know him more, scripture will become a priceless resource to our lives we cannot do

without. Having understanding about the God we're

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