Quote of the Day

"What matters supremely, therefore, is not...the fact that I know God,

but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that he knows me. I am

graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind. All my 

knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me.

I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He 

knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment 

when his eye is off me, or his attention distracted from me, and no

moment, therefore, when his care falters. This is momentous know-

ledge. There is unspeakable comfort - the sort of comfort that ener-

gizes, be it said, not enervates - in knowing that God is constantly

taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly

realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about

me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way

I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination

to bless me. There is, certainly, great cause for humility in the thought

that he sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow human beings

do not see (and I'm glad!), and that he sees more corruption in my than 

that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). There is,

however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought 

that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires

to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this

purpose. "

- J.I. Packer in Knowing God *

* This book is available wherever books are sold and is copyrighted 1973.