The thing we all need to discover is this: Who is God? That is the chief question. Nothing else really matters.  We've been in evangelical Christianity, and the apologetics movement, ever focused on a list of things we ought to believe. It's very informational. This is all yes exceedingly useful.  We need this information. But the head information is not the end, the end is heart knowledge of God, which is to know God truly.

The goal of all Scripture, and apologetics, and all the theology we've developed is that we would know the God behind all this data. The real God, who is really there. The God who can actually be encountered.  The Living God. Then it goes from head knowledge (useful) to heart knowing (essential).  

It's astonishing how we can miss this simple connection.  We can get so focused on belief in scripture, a worldview, a depiction of reality, which is all good stuff, that we can all together miss that the goal is to know the real God who behind all this information.  All the information is in fact meant to point to the Living God who is reaching out to us.

Can you believe this simple truth: I can really encounter the God of the Bible. I can have a vibrant living relationship with that God. I can come to commune with that God in deep and meaningful ways. And do you actively seek to know that God?  Not just the theology, the scripture, but the God who is present when we read and study it? 

We could miss that, if we aren't careful. Seek the living God. Seek to Know Him. And wonder at Him. Begin here, go out into the darkness tonight and ask God: Who are you, really?