Can You Relate?

How long have you known God?


Now, let’s turn the question around.

How long has God known you?

Here is what He said to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 1:4-5 (NET) - The LORD said to me. "Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

You are not an accident.

You are alive because God planned your existence.

What about the time between your conception and your birth?

Here is what the Psalmist reveals.

Psalm 139:13 (NET) - Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

Even in the earliest stage of your earthly existence, God was there with you.

He expertly wove you together cell by cell and organ by organ.

Just how intimately does God know you?

Here is what Jesus said.

Luke 12:6-7 (NET) - Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. In fact, even the hairs on your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

Do you know how many hairs there are on your head?

God does.

That is how intimately He knows you.

He even knows your needs?

Here is what Jesus had to say about that.

Matthew 6:8 (NET) - Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

God planned for your existence.

God was at work on you in the womb.

God knows you intimately.

God knows your every need.

Face it, God knows you.

In fact, He knows you even better than you know yourself.

You were created to have a relationship with God.

A relationship, however, requires two working toward the same goal.

God is half of that relationship,

God has done and continues to do everything He can to make His relationship with you possible.

You are the other half of that relationship.

What are you contributing to it?


Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
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