Chosen to Know God

Isaiah 43:10
"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he."


We have been chosen to know the Lord. Let that sink in a little. The God of this universe – the all-powerful, mighty, perfect, sovereign God has chosen each of us to know Him! Doesn’t that just thrill you? It does me. He wants us to know Him, and to believe Him and His truths, and to understand that He is God – He is it, all we need, want, or could ever imagine – He is everything.

It washes over me that the more I learn about God the more I realize that I really don’t know much. Knowledge is one of those things that I love. I really enjoyed school – learning, and knowing stuff, even if there really was no reason to know it. So, I constantly have to remember that my search here is not for knowledge, but to know God and believe Him, and try to understand in some minute way that He is it.

It sure is humbling, isn’t it? On this search the biggest thing that continues to come up is how little I really know about this infinite God of ours. We can let it be discouraging, or we can let that remind us that there is so much more wonder to our God that He desires to reveal to us. Let’s make that choice, here, today, together – to see our lack of knowledge and understanding as an open invitation to dig a little deeper and begin to really see the glory of God revealed through the gems we discover.