Monday, June 15, 2009

Known By God

"I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My Hands..." (Isaiah 49:15b-16a)
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me. I am graven on the palms of His hands; I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him because He first knew me and continues to know me. - J. I. Packer in "Knowing God"
- Jim Packer

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