Intimately Knowing

It amazes me to think about how much God knows you.  Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”  This means that God knew us before we were conceived, before we were a twinkling in our Daddy’s eye.  Even before your Grandpa met your Grandma and said, “Hey baby, let’s go for a ride”, He knew us, and ordained us: each and every one of us.  He goes on to tell us in Jeremiah 29:11 that, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”  He not only knows us from before we were formed, but He knows where He wants to take us to and where we will be at the end.  He stands at the beginning of life and pushes us out from eternity into time, is with us throughout life to carry us through, and at the end of life to receive us back to Him, all at the same time.  He is truly omnipresent.

But yet it goes farther than that. Matthew 10:30 says, “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”  It is amazing to me that a God who I would think would be busy running the universe with all its endless duties, wants, and needs, that God would have the time to number the hairs on the heads of each of us.  However it goes farther and is more intimate than that.  It speaks to a level of intimacy that is beyond comprehension and can only be explained by a love that surpasses all understanding.  Try to understand that He knows us so well, that when we comb our hair and one hair is pulled out; He knows that was hair number 15,937 that we just lost!  Yes my brothers and sisters He keeps that close of an eye on us and knows us that well.

If God knows you, and loves you this deeply and this intimately, and given that fact that what we all seek is an intimacy with someone who truly knows us, when are we going to take the time to find out more about this God, who loves us intimately this much?