To Know Him

To know Him is to walk through the veil into radiant communion.

📖 Devotional Credit:
Days of Heaven on Earth by A.B. Simpson

📸 Photo Credit:
Unsplash

There is something infinitely more precious than merely believing truths about Jesus—it is knowing Him personally. Paul didn’t cry out for knowledge of doctrine or divine mysteries; he longed for the intimate reality of Christ Himself. “That I may know Him,” he wrote, not in pursuit of theology but of relationship—one so deep it entered into the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings and conformity to His death.

Jacob, too, wrestled not for a blessing alone, but for identity and presence: “Tell me Your name.” God answered that yearning not just with words but by ultimately revealing Himself in the person of Jesus. It’s not enough to accumulate facts or defend faith intellectually. The glory, the power, the joy of the Christian life is not found in merely knowing about Christ but in knowing Him. This knowledge isn’t earned by effort—it is given freely to the one who seeks with a single heart.

✍🏼 Personalized Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture

I do not dwell in temples made by hands, nor do I wait behind the veil of ritual. I dwell in you. I have made My home in your heart that you may know Me—not just believe in Me, not merely work for Me, but commune with Me.

Paul's cry, “That I may know Him,” was born from a heart that had already met Me but hungered for more—deeper fellowship, more intimate union, full conformity to the Son’s heart. I answered him not with ideas, but with Myself. I led him into the death of self so he could walk in the power of resurrection.

You were made for this same intimacy. You were not saved to serve alone—you were brought near to behold My face and to walk with Me as one. I do not reward intellect, but surrender. I give Myself not to the clever, but to the childlike. The glory of knowing Me is hidden from the proud and given to those who seek Me with a whole heart.

Do not settle for secondhand truths. Do not be content with mere theology. I have given you Christ—the fullness of God in bodily form—and I have placed His Spirit within you so that you may say with boldness, “I know Him.” Let that be your treasure. Let that be your pursuit. And in knowing Him, you will find all else.

Scriptures referenced: Philippians 3:10; Genesis 32:29; John 14:23; Ephesians 3:17–19; Colossians 2:9–10

🕯 Real-Life Analogy

It’s like holding a handwritten letter versus embracing the one who wrote it. The letter may be beautiful and moving, but it cannot hold you, speak with you, or walk beside you. Only the person can. The Bible is His letter—but He Himself is your life.

🙏🏼 Prayer of Confidence

Father, thank You that You have not left me with only words about Christ—but have given me Christ Himself. I rejoice that I can know Him, not just as an idea, but as the One who lives in me. I trust You today to deepen this fellowship—not by striving, but by simply abiding. I rest in the truth that Jesus is mine, and I am His, and that to know Him is eternal life.