Do you know Him?

This morning in the service at Grace Baptist Church the guest speaker made a comment that has really been on my mind today. He said "You cannot love that which you do not know." At first it seems like a simple comment, but the more I meditated on it's truth today the more I was amazed at how relevant it is to our lives. For example, why does a husband love his wife? It's because he knows her, he values her, he appreciates her every day attributes that he alone recognizes because of the time he has invested in admiring her. He loves her, not because of factual realization of who she is but because of the fellowship he shares with her through the every day ins and outs of this life. He draws comfort from his wife because of her willingness to sharing her life with him. So this thought leads me to a greater question. How much do you love Christ?

If you could measure this amount of love for him wouldn't it directly relate to how intimately you know him? I most certainly believe it would. When we devote our lives to relentlessly pursuing the fellowship of Jesus Christ in our prayers, meditation on the word, and practice of daily righteousness; we enter into a communion with Jesus that makes our heart burn more and more with a passion to simply be close to him. Our hearts increasingly yearn for more of his presence and our lips cannot cease from worshiping him. When our eyes our focused on his unapproachable light of glory the lesser distractions of fulfillment in this world dissappear.

So I ask once again how much do you love Christ? How well do you know him? Does your heart yearn and burn for more of him? Oh that we as Christians would strive to know Christ more and more every day! The world would not know how to react when they saw men and women burning with a passion for more and more of Christ. Do you know him? And if you know him, how much do you love him? And if you love him, it is because he first loved you.