True intimacy

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 by Big Kahuna.

What does it mean to know and to be known? Through the Old Testament God continually says that he knows us, in fact He has known us since before He formed us in our mother’s womb. His knowledge of us essentially has no boundaries, for David in Psalm 139 that is originally a burden and then he finds comfort in that reality, essentially God knows him because he cares so deeply for him. In other Psalms he asks what is man that you are mindful of him. Through Hosea God speaks of having taught Ephraim to walk, through Isaiah He says we are inscribed on the palms of His hands. In the Gospel of John, we are told in the second chapter that Jesus knew what was in man and in other places we are told the same. God’s knowledge is complete and yet he loves us anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

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