Years ago when I was in a grocery store in Texas, a lady approached me on the canned goods isle. She had lots of canned goods in her basket and she asked me if I thought these canned goods would still be good after she had sent them to a foreign country where her son was serving in the military. At that time our United States military was fighting a war in this country, so I knew that her son was possibly in the middle of this and in a dangerous situation. I answered her question about the canned goods – they have so many preservatives that they would probably still be great – and then I asked her if she would tell me her son’s name so that I could pray for him. She looked at me and asked me a great question. She did not ask if I was a Christian. She did not ask if I went to church. She simply asked me, “Do you know God.”
Jeremiah 24:7 “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.” NIV
Philippians 3:7-8 “But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ.” NIV
John 17:3 “And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.” NLT
John 10:14 “’I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.’” NIV
John 14:6-7 “Jesus told him, ‘I am the way the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Fathers is. From now on you know him and have seen him?’” NLT
In order to really know someone we must spend time with them, preferably on a daily basis. We can grow closer each day to knowing God by spending time reading His word and talking and listening to him through prayer.
She asked, “Do you know God?”
“Yes ma’am, I do.”