God Knows Us

https://odb.org/MY/2023/03/05/god-truly-knows-us

Jeremiah 12:3 articulates something I think most of us know. That God knows us. That only He truly knows us. As much as our spouse or parents know us, no one knows us better than the Lord Himself. He knows our deepest desires and thoughts, our dreams, and aspirations. He knows our saddest and most disappointing moments, our heartbreak moments. He also knows our happiest times. Our moments of joy and happiness.

That also means that when we speak to Him, He already knows our deepest motivations. We can not say one thing and mean another when we are speaking to Him because He knows our deepest thoughts. That is why His Word is a two edged sword. It penetrates us and lays bear our souls.

But I think a good thing that comes out of speaking to the Lord is that He is able to refine us as we speak. Jesus will make our intentions clearer even to us. Thus, if we are not sincere, He will expose us and show us where we have gone astray. That will allow us to correct our motives for why we do certain things. If we do things only for show, He will expose our pretence to us. We can not pretend in front of Him. We can only be real, sincere, and genuine; for He knows if we are false and are faking it.

God knows us, inside and out. He knows our strengths and weaknesses. Our vulnerabilities, even our evil intentions. Speak and commune to Him more. As we interact with Jesus, He will cleanse us of our unholy and evil intentions and transform us from the inside. The fact that Jesus knows means we have to be completely honest and truthful to Him. Then, allow Him to change and transform us. We will become more and more like Him as we bask in His presence and commune with Him.

The message today is to spend time with God in communion, in prayer and worship. Read His Word daily. Have our quiet time with Him. Religiously guard that time. He knows us, and only He truly knows us. Seek Him out and we shall find Him. Jesus taught us before in Matthew 7:7 – Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, and knock and it will be opened.

Let Jesus refine us as we seek Him in prayer and worship lest He decides to refine us with fire by bringing us through unpleasant and precarious situations. Learn and become better willingly, so we need not learn our spiritual lessons the hard way