"A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him." - J. I. Packer
"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to KNOW God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord." - J. I. Packer
“We are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it. The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.” - J.I. Packer
“There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.” ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me.” ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
"It takes God to know God." - Mike Bickle
"The Scriptures are our only reliable source of knowledge about who God is; what He is like; what His will is; what His plans and purposes are; what He has done in the past; what He will do in the future; who we are; what life is all about; how we can know, love, and serve Him; what are the many promises He gives us; and how we can fulfill His purposes in the world. Accordingly, they are also God’s chief instrument for building our faith in Him. The Scriptures are God’s ultimate and final authority for what we are to believe and how we are to behave; they are our lifeline in this fallen world." ― Thomas A. Tarrants
“Do we desire such knowledge of God? Then two things follow. First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God. We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts.”― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“How can we turn our knowledge about God into "Knowledge of God"? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.” ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
QUIZLET: The Knowledge Of God - Key Bible verses on this topic, as flashcards
One time during a worship set I was leading, I saw in my mind's eye a prism with light coming into it and then breaking up in a rainbow of colors. What came from this encounter, a revelation as a response to an ongoing discussion I had been having with God, is the prism graphic below and deeper thinking and reflecting in what the Bible speaks of as, "The Knowledge of God." It was God telling me that we believers often focus on what God has done and celebrate it (although often times we don't even recognize these blessings as coming from God or are just indifferent to them). This practice of thanksgiving in itself is of course a great spiritual practice, helping us give the rightful recognition to the God who works directly and indirectly in our lives—seen or unseen. But God was also reminding me that greater knowledge, insight, understanding is found hidden in what He does. If we allow ourselves to remember what God has done and ponder these deeper truths of who He is, as revealed in each encounter, we will draw out gems of the knowledge of who God is.
The spiritual practices that include Bible study and various kinds of Biblical meditations, are designed for the very purpose of leading us into the knowledge of God. This knowledge is not about knowing facts about God but about knowing Him directly and personally through an “experiential” knowledge of Him.
“His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the DIVINE NATURE, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love… For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ… Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.” - 2 Peter 1:3-8, 10 ESV