Known

12/12/2020

John 17:22 “That they may be one, even as we are one.”

Have you ever said to anyone, “I know you better than you know yourself”? I certainly have. I must say, it feels a bit arrogant to admit that. What I truly believe, when I am not being uppity, is that there is no way I can actually know everything about a person. I would say that I know my husband better than I know anyone else, but there are things that, after 35 years of marriage, are still being revealed to me. Granted, many times these things are deep and painful, but it goes to prove that you never honestly know everything about a person.

There is someone who knows us better than we know ourselves, and that is God. He knows how we will react before we do, what we think, before we think it, and what path we will go down before we take it. This is true for all people. As a believer, I am able to search God’s Word and seek His will for my life as I journey. The more I give myself over to Him by faith and submission, the more I will change internally, and my outward personality will change as well. Chambers writes, “If you give up your right to yourself to God, the real true nature of your personality answers to God straight away.” There is no hiding anything from my Creator. Chambers adds, “Jesus Christ emancipates the personality, and the individual is transfigured; the transfiguring element is love, personal devotion to Jesus Christ.” My individuality should never take precedent over my relationship with my Savior, because it is only the husk of my personal life in Him.

(Again, I am sorry the direct links to the songs do not work with the blog page update. Worth the copy and paste, though.)

Fully Known – Tauren Wells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xckDgX8xNfg&list=RD0TrKXehB0pg&index=5