Let me ask you a question; how well do you know God?
I'm not asking how well do you know the Bible. I'm not asking if you go to church. I'm asking how well do you know the God of the universe.
Is He your best friend? Your father? Your brother? Or is He more like your boss that you talk to once a day and maybe ask for help when things get really bad? Do you know Him personally, like you would a best friend you call up every day or is He that one friend you call up every once in a while for a coffee?
God isn't looking to be facebook buddies. He wants to be your number one, your wingman, your best man at your wedding. That's the kind of relationship He calls us to.
He wants to know you.
Do you know what that means in the original Hebrew? He's not just saying 'oh I know him!'. To know someone in the Biblical sense is to know them intimately, the way a man 'knows' his wife. To know every part of you and love each and every bit of it. That is what it means to know God. You see, being a Christian isn't anything more or less than a personal and intimate relationship with God.
Do you think God would send the Son to die for some random person?
He loves us.
Do you get what I'm saying here? God wants to be so intimately involved with us that we want to spend the rest of our lives, the rest of eternity, loving Him.
He's not some impersonal cosmic force, He's a person with thoughts and feelings. He's a king who fell in love with a slave and let His only son die to pay for her freedom. He is a father who loved his daughter so much that He gives her everything she could ever imagine, but she doesn't want anything to do with Him.
So again I ask you, how well do you know God?
