Lord, I will remember that I must grow in my knowledge of Jesus. To know Him is more than the first contact with Him as Savior. John the Baptist said, “I knew him not” (John 1:33, KJV). Didn’t John recognize his relative? But John was speaking spiritually. Before the Holy Spirit revealed to him who Jesus really was, John did not know Him (v. 33b).
There are only two ways I can know Jesus: by the Word and the Spirit. History, art, and literature will teach me absolutely nothing about Him. He is the only person who walked this earth who must be spiritually discerned if He is to be known at all. The moment I shut my eyes to the Word and my ears to the Spirit, I cease learning about Jesus. Even worse, the knowledge that I once gained about Him begins to seep away from me. This explains why disciples who once were “on fire” for Jesus gradually grew cool and finally left their plows.
Knowing Jesus is a daily thing. Many Christians by their actions, lives, and fruit constantly say, “I know Him not.” It is pitiful to see believers walk though life pretending to know Him. The only knowledge of Jesus they have is that of the initial saving contact. Thank God, this knowledge is enough for sinners, but it is never enough for disciples.
I must never offer the world a Jesus whom I know is necessary. I must offer it a Jesus whom I know well enough to describe as “altogether lovely” (Song of Solomon 5:16, KJV).
“Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13).
Daily with the King 