Are we too busy minding earthly things to really know Jesus?

'David's life was a torrent of spiritual desire, and his psalms ring with the cry of the seeker and the glad shout of the finder.

Paul confessed  the mainspring of his life to be his burning desire after Christ. "That  I may know Him," was the goal of his heart, and to this he sacrificed everything. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have  suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may win Christ."'               The Pursuit of God A.W. Tozer

Php 3:8  Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ

The knowledge-

gnōsis

gno'-sis

From G1097; knowing (the act), that is, (by implication)

The KNOWING of CHRIST JESUS.

Php 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Php 3:14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Php 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Php 3:16  Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Php 3:17  Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Php 3:18  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Php 3:19  Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Php 3:20  For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Php 3:21  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

OUR CONVERSATION IS IN HEAVEN FROM WHENCE ALSO WE LOOK FOR THE SAVIOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!

Our conversation is in heaven!

Act 2:23  Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Act 2:24  Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

Act 2:25  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always

David spoke concerning JESUS CHRIST THE MESSIAH.

David foresaw the LORD ALWAYS!

How could David see the LORD always when He was many years in the future?

How could Paul know Jesus so intimately having only seen Him once in a vision?

They knew the LORD, the knowing of the LORD was their life.  In their knowing they were known by the LORD.

Do we LOOK for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ? Do we ACTIVELY - SPIRITUALLY look for the LORD JESUS CHRIST?

Are we too busy minding earthly things to know Jesus? To really know Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior, this must be the most important task of our life, of our every day. Before we even rise from our beds, immediately upon opening our eyes and as instantly as our cognitive awareness of being awake comes upon us we should, by the grace of God, greet our FATHER GOD, our LORD, our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. Our minds pointed heavenward, our thoughts acknowledging the very Ones we long to spend eternity with, the very Ones we desire to know as best as humanly possible.  God, holy, holy God, allows us the intimacy of prayer with Him and God the Holy Spirit will intercede for us in our prayers as we comprehend we truly don't know what we ought to pray, only that we must pray.

Rom_8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

We pray, to communicate with our God, our CREATOR, our REDEEMER. Our Gods are not off limit to us. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are ACCESSIBLE to us without our having to making any special appeasements, no ritual sacrifices other than a contrite spirit and a broken heart. The contrite spirit- knowing the power of any connection with our Gods is through our God's initiative nothing of our own accord, all power comes from our Gods. The broken heart- comprehending that until our Savior God, Jesus Christ returns we will not be fully, wholly reunited to our Gods. Brokenhearted knowing our hearts are only unbroken in Christ Jesus. 

We pray understanding the incomprehensible love given to us is something we can never deserve, the blessings we receive unwarranted. We realize our place, our WONDROUS place in the whole of all things. We are not ashamed to be CREATURES! We do NOT long to be CREATORS! We are creatures dependent upon our Creators.

More on all of this tomorrow by the will, the grace, the mercy, the love of our God, our Savior Jesus Christ!

Now and forever, amen!