God Knows You Inside and Out
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Bad News
God knows you inside and out,
like each stick of wood in a pile.
First Kings 8:39
In heaven your dwelling place, forgive, act, and render to all whose hearts you know—according to all their ways, for only you know what is in every human heart.
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John 1:47-48
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael asked him, “Where did you get to know me?” Jesus answered, “I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
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Words of Grace for Today –
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The Good News: the poor will receive a gracious bounty from the rich!
The Bad News: the rich will lose a great bounty to the poor.
It all depends on one’s perspective and circumstance.
God knowing us all is great if we are perfect.
But none of us is!
So God knowing us is really bad news for us all.
Except God is gracious and merciful, abounding in steadfast love!
So God knowing us, warts, sins, abominations and everything evil, is not bad news.
Unless we want to hang on to our warts, sins, abominations and everything evil.
God’s Good News is not that anyone loses anything good. Everyone loses everything evil. Everyone wins, it’s just some us us (part of each of us) wants to hang on to the familiar if destructive part of our selves.
How does God know us?
It is not important!
It is life-giving to know, even knowing us, God forgives us, loves us, and makes us whole again. Sinner-Saints each day anew.
What news!