If you want to know yourself better, get to know your Creator better.

It seems like everybody is trying to get to know themselves better, and there are plenty of people ready to tell you how to “tap the power within” or get acquainted with “your inner child.”

While there is value to knowing what you can do to improve your life, we would suggest that you spend more time focused on God than on yourself. Studying and learning about you shouldn’t be that big a deal. After all, you’re with yourself 24 hours a day. But God is different (and aren’t we glad). Studying and learning about Him takes a lifetime, and even then you barely scratch the surface.

Besides, getting to know God better inevitably leads to knowing yourself better. God created you in His own image. His imprint is on your life. As you get close to God, you will get closer to the real you.

We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.

Colossians 1:9