The way to know God is relationally, the way a child knows his parents. The family is not an abstraction to be studied, but a community into which we are born. We know our parents because we are in relationship with them – we live in their home, we eat at their table. There are family rules to be sure, but we never mistake the rules for our parents. Spiritual truth is experienced through relationship with God. It comes to the heart first, then to the intellect.
“Jesus declared, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’”
— John 3:3
Lord Jesus, thank You for making it possible for us to born again into the family of God that we might truly know You. In Your holy name I pray. Amen.