Do You Know Him?

This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands. - 1 John 2:3

We know quite clearly from His Word that God did not give man the Law (the ten commandments) in order that by keeping them he might become "right." The Law was and is a "teacher." It exists to reveal our un-righteousness, our imperfection, not our perfection. Why then would John say that if we keep the commandments, we can be assured of our knowledge of God? Especially when we know we cannot keep them?

I believe this to be a question of personal desire, not perfect obedience. Is it our desire and passion to obey God or our own fleshly desires? What is the "tenor" of your life? If your life was a tuning fork, would it ring a true note for Christ and His commands (all of them, not just the ones you find it easy to keep)?

If you know Christ, then you will always want to please Him, but only in Christ's perfect obedience to His own Father is the Law truly kept; therefore, when we do "keep His commands" it is one evidence that we are in Christ!

"Good" means not merely "not to do wrong," but rather not to desire to do wrong. - Democritus