Galatians 4:9 Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?
Paul writes to the congregation of Christians at Galatia to correct some things he's heard about them. The details of that are not what I want to write about today. I'm just struck by the way Paul writes... "Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God..."
The phrase "I have come to know God" is familiar to us in our Christian culture. We talk about when we came to know God. Paul does the same thing.... but then corrects himself grammatically. He corrects himself and makes God the subject of the sentence, where God belongs.
It doesn't matter that much whether you know God. It doesn't matter that much ultimately what you know about God. What is of much more importance is what God knows about you. What matters is that God knows you are God's beloved child. You are God's redeemed. And God knows it.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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