No one knows me, we think. People know my name but not my heart. They know my face but not my feelings. I have a social security number but not a soul mate. No one really knows me. The response of heaven is, “God does!” Prophets weren’t enough. Apostles wouldn’t do. Angels won’t suffice. God sent more than miracles and messages, he sent himself. He sent his Son.
In God’s great gospel, he not only sends, he becomes. He lives with. He lives as one of us. He knows our hurt, he knows our hunger, he knows betrayal. Most of all, he knows sin. He knows them better than you do. He knows their price, because he paid it. “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). God knows you.
