Do You Know Him?

John 7:28-31 So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord; he who sent me is true, and him you do not know. I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.” So they sought to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come. Yet many of the people believed in him.


Jesus so easily tells these men that they don't know God who sent Him. Is that hard to know? Is that so difficult to see? I can certainly see those times in my own life when i show I don't know him. It's not that I never met Him, it's that at that moment I don't know Him. I wish I could say I don't ever make choices that I know are not right. The truth is that as much as I know that God can and will keep from leaving Him in those moments, I choose to turn my back as if I don't know Him and walk the other way. To my credit I can say that is now rare instead of frequent, and maybe if there was a grading system for sin (not in God's eyes however} they might grade as less serious. Facts are facts we all fall short of the glory of God, we all sin. I can even see in others when they show they don't know God. Actions do speak louder than words, and actions are quite observable. 


Jesus spoke the truth, he knew no other way. He spoke what the Father told Him to say and so often even now we don't want to hear it. We want to hide in the worlds view of life like those in Jesus day and say the Jesus is wrong, but that is merely choosing to not know the Creator of the whole world. That is rejecting the author of love in pursuit of inadequate substitute loves. Choices can show we don't know Him and it matters.