Having experienced such glorious encounters with God, both in solitude as well as in the company of thousands of fellow believers, and having witnessed His power and discovered that He could use me as a vessel for His honor, I asked the Lord, "And now, my God, what is the next step?"
The Lord led me to His Word. He impressed upon mee the need to keep the fire of the Holy Spirit aflame and to follow biblical guidelines in order to do so. Next He gave me a renewed hunger for His glory, for an experience similar to that spoken of by the prophet Hosea: "Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth" (Hosea 6:3)
Scientists who study the universe have discovered that, as the Bible states, the stars are uncountable. Scientists are discovering new ones all time. Whenever they extend their vision beyond the known, they verify the fact that their search for the boundaries of the universe has not come to an end. So it is with us. In the face of the incomparable greatness of God, the closer we come to Him, the more His glory surprises us. We exclaim, "Lord, I still need to know You better! I hunger for You!"
The glory of God is fully revealed in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He is "the radiance of God´s glory and the exact representation of his being" (Hebrews 1:3). But God wants us to have an ever greater revelation of Himself today than we had yesterday. Habakkuk the prophet announced that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters covers the earth" (2:14). How much of His knowledge we discover depends, to a great extent, on our personal search for it.
Let us bow before Him in worship. Let us search for Him in His Word. Let us cultivate our relationship with Him. And, as a consequence of the presence of the Holy Spirit, His glory will become real in our lives.
