(Can any of us truly say that we really know Jesus?

Some know him afar off, and some don’t want to know him any more than they already do  -  are any of us still like that?

Some, sadly, do not know him at all, and we can all remember a time when we knew him not, when we were deceived and ignorant.

However, Jesus greatly desires for us to know him:)

 

Job 36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

 

Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

 

Jeremiah 9:6b  through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

 

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

 

Titus 1:16a They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him,

 

I John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

 

(Even John the Baptist admitted that he really didn’t know him, yet he did what was told him to do:)

 

John 1:31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

  33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

 

(When we don’t know Jesus, or when we don’t know him very well, we worship something, but it certainly isn’t Jesus:)

 

John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

 

(How well do we know somebody? What’s our spouse’s favorite color? How does our boss like their coffee?

What about Jesus? What does he love the most? What would he want most for us to do? What do we do that grieves him most?

Is he pleased with our daily life? How often do we think about Jesus? Do we really want to know him even better?)

 

John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

  55a Yet ye have not known him; but I know him:

 

(Even though Jesus is so close to us, and yet, sometimes, we don’t even know it:)

 

Luke 24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

 

John 20:14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.

 

John 21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.