Do you claim to know someone before you have met them?
We all realize that it is impossible to know someone before we have met them. Yet, sometimes having met someone briefly or for an extended period, we still may not know them. After having watched famous people in movies or some form of social media, we can misinterpret that as knowing him or her.
The ability to truly know someone typically involves meeting someone in person. However, our Creator has given us the tools to seek and to know Him. He has said that to know Him and believe in Him requires great faith. God is not revealed in a recognizable fashion to many people on Earth. Yet, each person has an opportunity to know Him without seeing Him.
Allowing ourselves to really know someone requires trust, courage, and strength. Truly knowing someone is a gift, which can bless our lives. It also requires a lot of discipline, dedication, and mostly love. The same are all required to know God along with abundant faith in that which is not seen.
We can all acknowledge that in the picture above is a pillow. We know this as fact because we learned what a pillow was from a young age. The truth of what a pillow looks like and feels like is familiar to each of us.
Not all of us were exposed to God at a young age or the exposure to God was not truth from God. Therefore knowing God the Father and the Son requires us to seek the truth. God promised that if we believe, He will give us a helper, His Spirit. Through prayer and reading His word in the Bible, we have the truth revealed through faith.
God was revealed to the world through His Son, Jesus. Many did not know Him, and even those who witnessed His good deeds soon turned away from Him. However, Jesus’ words were recorded by John, His disciple, so that all may know the basis of truth that He shared with His disciples while He was with them in the world.
The following verse is a prayer recorded in the book of John. Jesus is praying to His Father. His prayer is regarding His disciples.
John 17: 13- 19
“I am coming to you now,
but I say these things
while I am still in the world,
so that they may have
the full measure of my joy
within them.
I have given them your word
and the world has hated them,
for they are not of the world
any more than I am of the world.
My prayer is not that you take
them out of the world
but that you protect them
from the evil one.
They are not of the world,
even as I am not of it.
Sanctify them by the truth;
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world.
For them I sanctify myself,
that they too
may be truly sanctified.”
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