Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you that matter most.
Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you.”
Exodus 6:7: “I will take you as My people, and I will be your God.”
Exodus 33:17: “So the Lord said to Moses, I will do this thing that you have spoken for you have found grace in My sight and I know you by name.”
Many of us build our relationship with the Lord on the idea that we know Him. That is good but have you ever asked yourself does God know me?” There is a time in scripture where Jesus says to some who called themselves His followers, “I never knew you, depart from Me you who practice lawlessness.” (Matthew 7:23).
Lawlessness is not just a breach of the law. Lawlessness is a condition where we turn from the ways of God toward the ways of man. It is a state where our love for the Lord grows cold and our desires for ourselves grow hot. Lawlessness starts more easily when we see our relationship with the Lord as one where we proclaim that we know Him.
But it is better that our relationship with the Lord centers on the fact that He knows us. Moses knew that God knew him. This gave Moses the confidence to reject the lawless ways of the world and to live as best he could for the things of God.
It should give us great comfort to know that God knows each of us. It is an amazing thing to know that before we were even in the womb that God knew us. This means that before our parents came together and before the sperm met the egg, God knew everything about us.
When our relationship with the Lord is based on the fact that we know Him, we can only speak of who we know Him to be. But when our relationship with Him is based on the fact the He knows us, we can speak of His knowledge of us and of our knowledge of Him.
When we know Him, we speak of what we know about Him. But when God knows us, He speaks to others about us. We see this when God speaks to the devil about Job. He says to satan, have you considered My servant Job? God was saying to satan, I know Job inside and out.
When we speak of knowing the Lord we speak of His characteristics. He is Love. He is merciful. He is longsuffering. He is patient. He is full of grace. But this says little about who we are. And even satan would know the things that we know about the Lord.
But when God speaks about knowing you and I, He speaks about who we are. You are faithful; you are blameless. You are honorable. You are upright. You are fearful and you run from evil. We can say these things about ourselves, and hope others see and believe them or the Lord can say these things about us and we will know that others will accept them.
So, stop building your spiritual resume just about the things you know about the Lord. It is important to know Him, but it is more important that He knows you. When you build your relationship with Him on what you know, you must rely on your own character and knowledge to be as accurate as you portray. You must speak for yourself.
Live instead in such a way that the Lord Himself would testify to knowing who you are and how you live. Because what God says about you will carry with it the value of His character and of Who He is. He speaks about you so that you don’t have to speak for yourself.
Search me O God and know my heart. Try me and know my anxieties. And see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting. People will understand more accurately who you are when God tells them of who He knows you to be.
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