God KNOWS You

"Jesus Loves You" is a phrase popularized by bumper stickers, songs, t-shirts and the like. Another poster-worthy slogan is from John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son..."

And while this is so very true, it's important to realize that He doesn't just love you with a general, overlying kind of love. He loves the "the world", but He loves it person by person by person (and I could keep going with that approximately 6.8 billion times). And because His love is individual, it comes with intimacy. Not just for you to have with the Creator of the Universe, but for Him with you as well.

How awesome is it that God makes it perfectly clear that he knows who we are? How much easier is it to have a relationship with someone who knows everything about you versus a stranger? God says, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you..." (Jeremiah 1:5)

Go ahead and grab a thesaurus and look up the word KNOW. According to Websters, if God "knows" you, then these things are also true:

• God appreciates you.
• God comprehends what you are going through.
• God distinguishes you from everyone else.
• God grasps who you really are.
• God notices you!

All of these synonyms for the word know just blow my mind because it shows exactly how God loves "the world " and that is very, very personally.

Even if you don't know God right now, thank Him for taking the time to KNOW YOU. After all, relationships can only happen if someone does the initiating ( for example, my now husband decided to message me on Facebook one day LOL). But you can be glad that the awkard "get to know you"  phase has already been done for you!

Galatians 4:9 says "Now that you know God - or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to your previous ways?" Knowing that God really knows you should be enough to blow you away and change your life. It's a great place to start and an amazing thing to be reminded of.