This Is What It Means To Be Held

This song caught my attention on the radio awhile back and I finally remembered to buy it today. I've heard it a million times and even knew the words before I finally stopped and listened to the lyrics. I think it ties perfectly into the book my small group is reading: Knowing God by J.I. Packer. I was pretty sceptical of this book at first, but it is definitely growing on me. The third chapter is about being known by God, not just knowing God. I loved his sum up of the chapter, (the interjections in parenthesis are also him)

"There is, certainly, great cause for humility in the thought that he sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow humans do not see (and am I glad!), and that he sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). There is, howerever, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. We cannot work these thoughts out here, but merely to mention them is enough to show how much it means to know not merely that we know God, but that He knows us. (J.I. Packer-Knowing God 1973)"

Some verses come to mind

Jeremiah 1:5

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

John 10:27

"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me."

Psalm 139....all of it including 2-3

"You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are aquainted with all my ways."

This whole book is about Knowing God and getting to know your Creator, but part of me is still too fascinated by the idea that He knows me that well. I guess the biggest question I have, just like Packer, is why? Why would anyone, who knows me inside and out, still love me? That leaves me baffled and feeling loved all the more. To be loved by someone who knows all of you is a beautiful thing.