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Knowing God... vs knowing about God



 

         “Not many of us, I think, would ever naturally say that we
          have known God. The words imply a definiteness and
          matter-of-factness of experience to which most of us, if we
          are honest, have to admit that we are still strangers… Would
          it occur to us to say, without hesitation, and with reference
          to particular events in our personal history, that we have
          known God? I doubt it, for I suspect that with most of us
          experience of God has never become so vivid as that."



A life worth nothing


We are used to the idea that a life apart from Jesus is, ultimately, of little worth - “A waste of time between two accidents”, as someone put it. But it is possible for a Christian life to be worthless to.

Does that sound shocking? I think so. And yet the Apostle Paul himself writes of the possibility of his life’s work being “in vain” (Philippians 2:16). What will your life count for? And what will make it count for something?