Reply To: Knowing God, Chapters 1 & 2

[Lilla]

I just read over the other submissions and identify with just about all of them. A huge thank you to each one who shares and allows the rest of us to know a little more of each other.
Carolyn, I, too have had that same temptation to worry that I will be told: Depart from me. I never knew you. And once again to be reassured that God knows me, He loves me, HE saves me; What a wonderful Savior. Just yesterday Dave and I were invited to eat with friends. The guy, “G” was sharing his having read some apocryphal accounts of who Jesus was. It seemed like he was inclined to believe those accounts and doubted the accounts of what we accept as the four Gospels. In my Bible study Community Group we started on the Gospel of John. There is so much sharing and discussion that we get through only a few verses each week. The result is, that I get a chance to go back over some of the same verses again and again. And John, himself, in those first several verses of John 1 repeats in different ways that Jesus is the Christ, God Himself, present and instrumental in Creation; this Jesus is Jesus, who became man, who died and rose again that He might live His name, Jesus, Savior and that we might have eternal life and know it. I was reminded of a biogrphy I read of E. Stanley Jones, who determined not to get caught up in useless arguements, but to proclaim Christ and Him alone. And in order to proclaim Him, I want to know Him. I was able to speak from those weeks of focussing on John 1:1-18. May “G” hear the truth.