Genuine Encounter

Echoes of Truth

January 25th

Theme: Passionate Hunger 

The person who has seen God is never the same; his desire is for God alone. – Watchman Nee

Those with true encounters with God cannot be mistaken. There’s this aura with them that exudes God’s personality and the words they speak, lives they live never contradict God’s Word.

Everything about them is a practical living out of the Bible. It is them who have chosen to be practical with Jesus’ Words that man lives by every word from God’s mouth.

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The truth is the basis of their encounter is from their pressing urge, hunger, to hear what He says. God never withholds His Word from them because He has surely seen the willingness of their hearts towards prompt and wholehearted obedience.

For such individuals, it gets to that point where the Word becomes flesh to them, they see God, hear God, touch God, and live by Him alone.

Just one such encounter with God is capable of forging a lifetime commitment to desiring Him alone.

A moment of divine revelation of God can completely rearrange your desires.

This is why Scripture is full of records of encounters rather than just explanations.

Isaiah did not receive a lecture on holiness; he saw the Lord high and lifted up (Isaiah 6:1). In that moment, his self-confidence collapsed, his sinfulness became evident, and his life’s direction was forever altered.

One glimpse of God’s holiness recalibrated his desires and produced a hunger that no earthly ambition could satisfy.

We see this same pattern in Moses, too. After speaking with God on Mount Sinai, he pleaded, Father, show me Your glory! (Exodus 33:18). Even though he had already witnessed God’s miracles and judgments in times past, Moses still longed for more
of God Himself.

Once the heart tastes divine presence, it discovers that intimacy with God is not exhaustible. Genuine revelation of God intensifies the hunger that mere sight of Him cannot.

Could it be that the reason some of us are still experiencing unchanged Christianity is that we have not lingered long enough in His presence to be undone? No tangible encounter?

Because true revelation of God will not merely inspire us to admire God. It will ensure the displacement of every rival love.

This explains why Paul counted all things as loss after encountering Christ (Philippians 3:7–8). Having seen Christ, Paul could not return to a life of balanced affections. God had become his supreme desire.

To see God, therefore, is to enter a holy dissatisfaction with substitutes.

It births a hunger that cannot be silenced by success or mere spiritual routine. Our soul begins to echo David’s cry: “Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You” (Psalm 73:25).

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Let Us Pray:
Lord God, open the eyes of our hearts to see You as You truly are. Deliver us from shallow encounters and divided desires. Let one true sight of Your glory awaken in us a hunger that outlives every distraction. Make Yourself our one desire, our deepest pursuit, and our greatest reward. In Jesus’ name, Amen.