It seems to me that since God is God, it is perfectly reasonable and legitimate for Him to expect us to believe Him, even if it means refusing to believe anyone else. For He knows everything; and perhaps it is the concept of an all-knowing God that we find difficult to grasp. Or perhaps we need to look further; it may be that the whole personality of God remains a mystery to our generation. Is it possible to know everything about God? Certainly not, otherwise He would no longer be infinite.
However, it is possible for us to know and to understand more than we imagine. God loves to reveal himself and to be discovered. He has given us the Bible. On several occasions He asked men to write down what He told them. Why? So that we could return to it again and again to discover more about God. Yet we know so little. It is definitely an evil that is eating away at our generation, this weak meditation on the Person of God. Therefore, we know the words, we can repeat the attributes, but to what extent has this penetrated our being and transformed our perspective of God?
God desires to be the center of our attention, He desires us to think, meditate, talk, and discuss Him. It is in doing so that our vision of Him becomes ever clearer and sharper. It is in doing so that the wonders of Christ become truly marvelous in our eyes. It is in doing so that we are penetrated by the reality of God and we can understand that when God has said a thing, it cannot be otherwise, given what He is; and it is in doing so that we come to consider it perfectly reasonable that God should expect us to trust and obey Him.
Nowadays, knowledge of God is becoming an increasingly rare commodity, and in some Christian circles there is distrust of the overflowing passion for God which would be detrimental to well-being. Personally, I call for times of meetings between Christians or, why not, between servants of God spent talking, not about their blessings, nor their ministries, nor the number of their faithful, nor their conferences or latest teachings for sale, but to talk about God, to be ecstatic about His Person, to meditate on His attributes, to evoke His glory, and to prostrate themselves in the wonder which results from it.
Strange? Not at all. That's the path the ancients took. But we, busy as we are saving the world for Jesus, conversation and meditation about Jesus often seem like a waste of time that is as embarrassing as it is inconvenient. Thus we wither away from the vine, and become incapable of experiencing that profound joy born of simple meditation on the beauty of Christ. And we run the risk of going to hell before those we devote our lives to saving.
Selah.
I really like the passage where you say: "Nowadays, knowledge of God is becoming an increasingly rare commodity, and in some Christian circles there is distrust of the overflowing passion for God which would be harmful to well-being. Personally, I call for times of meetings between Christians or, why not, between servants of God spent talking, not about their blessings, nor their ministries, nor the number of their faithful, nor their conferences or latest teachings for sale, but to talk about God, to be ecstatic about His Person, to meditate on His attributes, to evoke His glory, and to prostrate themselves in the wonder which results from it.", that is true worship, that which results from the revelation of His word.
May God change my topics of conversation because it is true that I often talk about what he has done and what he is doing in my life, about the church, about teachings, but He deserves that I meditate on Him, whether I am alone or accompanied by my brothers and sisters. All that matters is knowing him, as Paul said.