Know, Understand, Feel, and Experience

After talking to Micah, I have learnt more about communication and relationship with God. And this morning, the following come across my mind:

Know: This is the first step. We have to know HIM. It is the job for Christian to spread the gospel.

Understand: We should spend time to study Bible, so we can understand God and HIS work. If we spend 20+ years full-time to study in school, we surely need to spend more time to learn about God.

Feel: To get closer with God, I think we need to feel HIM, like our family, our friends. For example, from history book, we learn many things about historical people, but we hardly feel closed to them. But Jesus is different, we learn about him from Bible. But we should still able to feel HIM because HE is still with us. In the last couple years, I start to gain this feeling.

Experience: To gain close relationship with God, I think the best way is to experience HIM. But actually I can't talk too much for this point, because I don't have any strong experience with God. From friend's sharing and Bible, I see people who have experienced God. Simply says, they are different. My favourite example is Paul. From a punk who messed up with Christian, to a fearless warrior who spread Jesus name. That was a huge turn-around.

One question as usual: How do we experience God!? From all the stories I heard, most time God come to them. It is not like they need to pray for it.