Knowing You, Jesus: There is no greater thing

God is good, He is everywhere, and His glory is undeniable when seen for what it is. May our eyes be open today!

We live within an ever-changing masterpiece! Don't you love it?! Do you see it?

Have you shown the LORD that you love Him, yet today? Have you loved God today the way you long to be loved; shared with Him what you long for your spouse to share with you? Listened the way you want to be listened to?

What makes you love someone more deeply? Knowing them more deeply, right? And choosing to love them? How do we get to know God more deeply? And love Him - all three persons of Him - because we know Him and choose to love?

We get to know Him as we read His Words to us in the Bible and as we talk to Him in prayer; as we are still, listening for answers as we think about what we're reading and what we're asking in prayer. We get to know Him as we ask our questions, and wrestle with doubt, confusion, and frustration before Him. We get to know Him as we celebrate with Him! as we tell Him what we know about Him, what we love about Him, and what we don't get about Him. We get to know Him as we choose to love even those parts we don't get, or don't like. Just like we choose (or will choose, or really should choose) to love even those parts of our spouses.

Just like with any intimate relationship - we have to spend time with the LORD in order to know Him more and grow to love Him more. Yep, it does take a lot of effort. But it's worth it! Our relationship with the LORD (Father, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit) is the only thing worth our WHOLE HEARTS -

--He may cost us everything in this world, literally (He does cost us everything in that we surrender it to His will and relinquish our control and possession of it all), and even then (having lost all material things, all stature, all health, all family and friends) we would still have all we need for Life and full Joy in having a relationship with the Father, through Christ, in the power of the Spirit.

When we truly know the Person of God, His character and His perfect love, then we also truly know that He is the Pearl for which we'd sell all to possess.

But only in knowing Him.