I was watching a
TV documentary last night. It was about FDR.
Now I never knew
FDR, (who, interestingly enough, was a 6th cousin of mine). I’m old,
but not that old. But it so happens that when “the old man” died, there was an
immense outpouring of public grief.
Thousands lined
the streets of Washington, D.C., and hundreds of signs were sprinkled across
the crowd. One particularly poignant sign read,
“I never knew FDR, but he knew me.” Such expressions reflected on
the multiplied social programs he established to bring America out of The
Depression. There were tears aplenty, and some sobbed unabashedly.
Such an
illustration reminds me that we serve a God Who knows us, and Who, as Stasi
Eldredge said so eloquently, has a void in His heart that only one can fill.
You are meant to fill a place in the
heart of God that no one and nothing else can fill. Whoa. He longs for you.”
(“Captivating” Eldredge, Pg. 120)
But unlike the
way FDR, (that great, but mortal man,) was characterized, relationship is not a
one-way street. God has never been content just to know us. He longs for us to
know Him. For we have a very similar “God-shaped hole” in our own hearts.
This thing we call Christianity is so much
more a relationship, than a religion. I have quoted the subsequent verse in the
past, but it bears repeating here.
“We have not a high
priest Who cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all
points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
“Let us come boldly to the Throne of Grace that we may
receive mercy for our failures, and grace to help in the time of need.”
(Hebrews 4:15,16, KJV)
In the Old Testament
God is characterized, (and none can deny it,) as knowing us; but there is that
continual, unremitting struggle to know Him there. He seems Separate, Holy, but
somehow still at odds with His creation.
But that is
forever remedied in The Testament of Grace. Now,
(and none can deny it,) we can also know Him.
Yes, My Dear
Saviour knows me, but, (and this is wonderful,) I also have the inestimable
privilege of knowing Him.
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