Bedside Watchman To Know Even As We Are Known

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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June 17th -- 1 John 3

To Know Even As We Are Known

There is one to whom all hearts are "naked and laid open" (Heb. 4:13). Darkness is as light to Him, the thought unspoken is heard by His ears, because He is beyond "things seen" -- beyond the visible phenomena of the universe which He has created: and therefore because the Father is in secret, He seeth in secret; and to the invisible One the invisible things are known. Along with awe at that penetrating knowledge, and grief at the frailty which it reveals, there is joy for disciples in the fact that they are truly known. In private prayer they need not fear men's malice or misunderstanding, and they cannot seek men's praise -- unless (God forbid) it be their own. Here if anywhere in the world, they will be true, because they are alone with the God of Truth. And from such communion a fellowship may grow to reach its fullness in the day when they shall "know even as they are known", being like the Son in whom the Father is made manifest, for they shall "see him even as he is" (1 John 3:2).

L.G. Sargent, The Teaching of the Master, page 161