Kate said UNKNOWN
Nothing popped into my head this morning when I saw the word. Unknown conjures up (without looking at a dictionary):
- unfamiliar
- invisible
- without identity
It was brought to my attention this week of a 23 yr old person who has no idea of who God is. God is unknown to this person. Isn’t that sad?
To an unknown god
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship–and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. Acts 17.23
Our friend Paul said this in Athens Greece. Those dear people had idols to every god under the sun and, then, just in case they built one to an unknown god.
Aren’t we blessed?
Our God is KNOWN and can be personally KNOWN by each of us. It’s called relationship and that is what we have with our known God after we place our trust in His one and only beloved Son, Jesus Christ.
Known or unknown?
The choice is ours.
Such a Grace!
To have a God who desires to be known by us. Prayers for all those who go through life unaware.
It makes me sad to think most children today don’t have a clue.
I have learned this is the very best way to write! Five minutes or no more than ten, and just write! Learning the unknown more and more every day!
It is a great exercise of creativity!
I agree, it is amazing that we can know God, and so sad that so many people don’t know who he is.
It is so very sad.
It may be mere tautology,
or perhaps my faith is flawed,
but nonetheless, the mystery:
I know I don’t know God.
There are things that He’s demanded
that seem not right, nor fair;
my father-in-law’s to death remanded,
and I’m in cancer’s care.
If I had His point of view,
I’d surely understand,
but here the sky is grey, not blue,
a shadow on the land.
But I’ll hold my tongue and mind my place,
for humility’s the wisest grace.
Now, Andrew, “you don’t know God?” Do we need to talk over raw oysters on saltines and a good cold beer?
Looking forward to that talk.
I do know better, but it was a hard week in a lot of ways, and I wanted to catch that, because despair is the shadow-part of faith’s chiaroscuro.
Andrew, you use words I’ve never read before!!! I know your week was AWFUL and I am so sorry.
I, for one, absolutely could NOT do this life without knowing God. Nor would I want to. I have two sons I pray to know our God as well. I look at them in bewilderment, how they can make it even one minute without the Hope God offers. I just can’t wrap my mind around it. Not anymore.
Dear friend, I have two prodigal sons – I long to see them return to Father. Prayers. xo
“And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” (John 17:3). I am so thankful God wants to know us, and that we can know Him!!!
I am so very blessed to be known by Him!