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Momentous Knowledge

Today I read this in J. I. Packer's book Knowing God:

"What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it--the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is not moment when his eye is off me, or his attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when his care falters.

This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort--the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates--in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me."--Knowing God, pages 41-42

Posted by on November 13, 2007

Comments (2)

Awesome stuff, Josh. These are truths which most of us know, but it's so easy to forget, or to not really live like God has chosen to know AND love us! Thanks for the Godward inspiration!

Posted by Joseph Cotten | November 13, 2007 12:47 PM

Wow.

Such amazing, unconditional love.

Posted by Jess | November 14, 2007 2:48 AM

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