The Revelation

"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better." Ephesians 1:17 (NIV)

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I studied You the way I study a subject, gathering facts, hoping information would eventually feel like intimacy.

It never did. Knowledge about someone is not the same as knowing them.

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Then You gave me something study alone could never produce, a sudden knowing, a moment where a truth I had read a hundred times finally became a truth I had met.

That is revelation. Not new information, but old truth suddenly alive, because You made it so.

I called the years before that moment thorough.

They were only preparation, waiting for You to do what only You can do, which is make knowledge become knowing.

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Forgive me for thinking study alone could get me where only You can take me.

Facts inform.

Only You reveal.

Spirit of revelation, make what I already know suddenly alive again.

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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Thank You, Holy Spirit, for turning information into intimacy.

Thank You for revelation that no amount of study could manufacture on its own.

Let me know Him better today, not just know more about Him. Amen.

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