A Journey to Easter - Day 31
- Debbra Stephens
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And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
(1 John 5:20 ESV)
That God granted to be knowable and known is such a grace! And yet there remains much mystery. “Mystery is not the absence of meaning,” writes Dennis Covington, “but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.” I also agree with the thoughts from antiquity which expressed that, “God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.”
However, God wants to be known. What He has disclosed is enough to fill a lifetime with continual discovery. Paul wrote to Rome that God’s “invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made” (Romans 1:20). We’ve learned that God has spoken. He has entered into covenant for relationship. To the Corinthians, Paul explained that we come to understand God through the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:12). And He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. To know Jesus is to also know God (John 8:19; 14:7). Because of Jesus – and only because of Jesus – can we truly know God… and be fully known by Him.
It's a wonder, indeed, to be able to come to know God. But doesn’t it warm your heart to know you are also known by Him? Take a few moments to look at verses like John 10:27, 1 Corinthians 8:3 and 13:12. Ponder Psalm 139:1-3; 13 and 16, and Jeremiah 12:3 slowly. Feel their affect flood your heart and mind with comfort and a better sense of His love for you. Pray the knowledge those verses impart increase your faith and fuel a longing to know Him more.
God knows your desires, your joys. Your sorrow, your pain. He knows your disappointments and fears. You are known intimately and personally by the King of the Universe! Doesn’t that speak volumes of His gracious heart? Of your intrinsic value? And that of those all around you?!
Join me in praying 2 Peter 3:18: That we will “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.”
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