Welcome back.  Come on in and sit a while.  Have a seat, put your feet up and get comfortable.  I am so happy you have decided to take a little journey with us and we hope you will not be disappointed.  We know your time is valuable and that you don’t have busy minutes of your life to just give away.  After all, we all know, you can never get them back.  So, there’s that little word again, “know”. What is this “know” I keep talking about and how do we know if we even know?  Do you know that you know when you dont know?  See the madness of it all?

So, what in the world is the know, how do you get it and what do you do with it once you have it?  Does what you know or do not know really matter or make a difference in your life?  Will it make a difference in the lives of those around you?  Maybe I should start by sharing a sentence that never ceases to arrest my attention every time I read it, no matter how many times I have read it.  Even now as I write them, I feel the words wrap around my heart wtih their tendrils of love and longing twisting into the deepest chambers.

“If only you knew.”

Knew what?

Maybe, just maybe, we are asking the wrong question.  OH, the art of the question!  No one is better at asking questions than Jesus.  Do you know why I think he asks questions?  I think, it is because He wants us to see what we know. Or realize what we don’t know.   This is certainly true for myself.  Many times, I believe we don’t even know ourselves, what we do or do not know, until someone asks us the right questions.

In the words of our beautiful Sarah Lee…

• Do you know who you really are?
• Do you know who God created you to be?
• Do you live life from a place of knowing you are loved?
• Do you believe that Jesus is always for you?
• Do you wish that you knew what you don’t know?

The beautiful art of the question.

How many times do we end up responding, “You know, I don’t really know”?

So maybe, instead of asking only a “Know what” question, we should also ask a, “Know Who” question?

I would love to take a three-step journey with you if you are willing.  It will look something like this:

1. To Know of Him (Jesus/God) =  Technical, to know about him.
2. To meet/love-know him = Connected, your heart knows and connects with him.
3. To see/experience-know him = Supernatural, encountering his presence.

On this journey, we will take a walk through the halls of scripture where we find these haunting words, “If only you knew”.  Do you know who said them?

Would you like to know that you know?