I KNOW IT IN MY KNOWER

For years, when someone asks me about God, for instance, "How do you know God is real?", I usually say, "Because I know it in my knower!"

They  probably put my answer in the "must not be very important category", but it does make them curious and they usually ask further.  However, this morning I see that I may not be far off.  Get a load of Hebrews 8:10,11 in the Message:  "This new plan I'm making sn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; this time I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts."

God's plan is written on "the lining of my heart," so says Paul in his letter to the Hebrews.  Inside of me, as deeply as it is possible to get which is my very center, my core, there it is written--God's plan for me to get to know him.  Perhaps it is also written there for me to discover his plan to love me, to show me His mercy, His joy in me, and the purpose He may have planned for me.

But now I am getting old and doubt there is any grand assignment awaiting me on my heart as yet undiscovered.  And that's very OK as I have enough challenge keeping my nose clean and loving those around me.  I have many flaws as well, but God is working on me to work on them.  Some things are my job and I'd better learn how to do them. Time's a wastin'!

In the meantime, I find it very nice that I wasn't so far off when saying, "I know it in my knower!"  My knower must be the lining of my heart!

Merry Christmas, to any reader out there. God's blessings upon you and yours! (Look for me again sometime after Christmas.  We're on our way to Minnesota!  BRRRRR.)

Love you, Lord!    JO