"Who is this girl I see, staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know?"
-Disney Princess: Mulan
"You know me"
-Any desperate guy on a sappy romance movie in a relationship-gone-bad situation
"You want someone who knows you, even better than you know yourself."
-Frederick Arlington: The Inhertance
"I want someone who loves me for me!"
-Anistasia: Cinderella 3
Seemingly random quotes, yes, but I do have a point: We all want to be known. Don't we? We leave little hints on dates, we fill out "get to know me" cards the first day of school, we ask random questions and answer eaven stranger ones when talking in groups. And as our relationships deepen, so does our longing to know and be known...you get what I mean.
To be known, is to belong. To belong, is to be loved. To be loved, is every happiness.
But people fail. We can't know to the extent that many need. We can't have a place for each person to independently and exclusively belong. We can't unconditionaly love.
We Come Short
Humans don't have the ability to know, accept, and love like the ability God has for his Children, his Lover, his Bride. He has the capability to litterally see our DNA, he KNOWS what we are made from, the very dust that pulls together the first atom of our pinky finger...he knows it's name.
Even better: God Knows Our Soul. Ladies, he knows why we become deleriosly happy when the couple finally realizes their love for eachother and finally kiss. Gents, he knows why you find it thrilling to "ooh" and "dangit" and "YES!" for a little leather pouch that some fourty-odd men are scrabbling over. He knows what makes each of us giddy, mournful, joyus, and upset. He knows. He told me so.
1 Corinthians 8:3 "But the man who loves God, is known by God."
Psalm 139:13 "For you created my very being..."
Isaiah 49:16a "See, I (the LORD) have engraved you on the palm of my hands."
Our God, knows us. Better still, He wants to know us! Only God can fully know each of us to the exact degree that we need, and long for. No human will ever come close to this kind of knowing.
I have just read a book (go figure, I'm always reading) maybe you've heard of it: "The Shack"?
I know this book was the topic of much debate, and I've settled it in my own my mind. If you like it, you do. If you dislike it, you do. I do not care wheather it completely offended you, or changed your faith. There was however one thing said that caused me to think very long and hard.
"You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself to facilitate and honor that relationship." -Papa
The character speaking is the epitome of God the Father. What was said was that God limits himself when he is with us, so he can be in a relationship of knowing. God knows all, yes. But have we ever considered that he wants to get to know us anyway? What would be the fun in a relationship if only you were asking the questions? It is the same with God. He reveals himself to us, but he also longs for us to reveal ourselves to him.
He created us, you can't get much more of an understanding of someone than by doing that. We don't have to search in a relationship with another human for someone to know you, you can search in God. He will always be there. He will fully know, completely accept, and unconditionally love what he finds in your heart, mind and soul.
