God said something that must have rocked Jeremiah’s mind: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5). Have you ever wondered to what degree God knows you; what God knows about you?
Think about the first encounter between Jesus and Nathanael. Having never seeing him before, Jesus said something that alerted Nathanael to the fact that He knew him. What could have been going on in Nathaniel’s mind when he asked, “How do You know me?” The truth is—He knows all!
RELEVANCE
We can know certain truths about God. We can know Him as the God of history, the God who created the universe, the God of the cosmos, the force or the God who established a moral code of ethics. There will come a day, however, that He will ask you: “But who do you say that I am?”
The LORD revealed two things: He knows His own, and His own know Him. “I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own” (John 10:14-15). The big question is; how well do you know Him? He would hope we wouldn’t have to ask the question. The reality is our human mind simply works on a different level. One of the greatest challenges Paul put before us is to know Him by the Spirit.
“But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10-11).
REFLECT AND RELATE
Chew on this scripture a bit. Ask God to break down any wall that prevents you from knowing Him by the Spirit. Ask Him what it truly means to know Him by the Spirit.
On a different note, if the LORD appeared to you, what would you expect and want to hear the LORD say about you?
REFERENCES
Jeremiah 9:23-24; Romans 5:1