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Gal 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
I have read this verse a million times. And it has convicted my heart a million times about returning to the very things that I have been freed from. God has been most gracious to free us from the weak and worthless things of this life and yet, I seem to somehow enslave myself to the very things He has freed me from.
But today, something fresh has torn open my heart from this verse. Often we teach people that they need to know God. We tell them to study the Word and to seek Him. We develop classes, plan services, orchestrate settings so that people can know more about God. And this is of God. It is His desire that we know Him.
And yet, the thing that has struck my heart is even deeper than that. Is it more important that we know God, or that we are known by God. At the end of this life, what we know of God and our confession of knowing God will be of little value if our God doesn’t know us.
One of the scariest verses of Scripture in the Bible is Matt 7:21-23
21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
22 "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.'
Many will SAY that they know God, but that is not the most important thing. The ONLY thing that matters is that you are KNOWN BY GOD. For on that day, your confession will not be what gets you in. It will be the fact that HE KNOWS YOU. It is not nearly as important that you know God as it is that you are known by God.
I can say all day long that I know people. But the true test of knowing is do they know you? And not just your name. We can say we know people by name dropping, but the truth is can they call yours and is there relationship to back it up, because that is what true knowing is all about.
You may know His name and profess to know Him, but the only thing that matters is does He know your name and does God have relationship with you that backs that up?


ALL FOR YOU