"I never knew you” (Matt. 7:23): “Know” here is the Greek word ginosko which denotes knowing gained through experience... relationship and intimacy; we must really “know” Jesus and be “known” by Him. Relationship and intimacy are birthed and mature through time spent together. To really know through experience that there is another person with us in our “empty” room takes a disciplined Stillness before God where we learn to hear His voice... for His sheep “know His voice.” Man punctuates his speaking with silence but God punctuates His silence with speaking, so chances are we will drown out God’s still small voice with our constant mental and verbal patter. “Be still and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10). “Know” here is the Hebrew word yada which means to know intimately. It is in Stillness before God that we truly come to intimately know God. “Be still” is really a divine “shut up”! God is much more polite than we people-kind. We must learn to stop our flow of endless petitions, turn off our incessant earth-bound mind set and rest in deep meditation and awe-struck wonder before our God. If awe-struck wonder seems a little strong than we simply need to learn more about this all powerful, all knowing, everywhere God who for some unfathomable reason has decided to lavish His pure-passion love on us. And when our mind wanders, and it will, wander after it and bring it back... Stillness is a discipline, and disciplines are learned! The day will come when we will be able to step into our inner man in quite meditation before our Father at any time and place, finding immediate peace in the intimate presence of God. Be still and know...
IT’S A DISCIPLINE
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