Saturday, September 12, 2009
-excerpt from "Utmost with the Leastmost"
"The Most Important"You know the most important thing I learned is this :
Nobody knows me like You
You put Your arms around me
You bring me through
And there's many times I don’t know what to do
Though some know me well
Still nobody knows me like You
As a young person I always thought my mother knew me so well, I could talk to her and I always so wanted to make her proud. She listened, and when she disagreed with me, I thought most of the time she was right, till I found out she was wrong.
Wrong about me in some ways, especially when I got saved. She really thought I would be "over it" one day. She got saved instead.
My sisters thought they knew me and sometimes they remind me of Jesus and His brethren with Mary his mother when they came to Jesus to stop him from going to Jerusalem. Because He had become famous, to them in some ways he was infamous since he made really bold statements they didn't believe in, but they let Jesus be himself and contrary to what He told them, They "knew" him.
That particular time Jesus went on to be Crucified, rise from the dead and they discovered they really did not know Him as well as they thought.
People will always be telling you they know you. Your friends, your family, your doctor, even your wife, or your kids, maybe an ex-boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, doctor, or pastor. Sometimes they may know a little about you, sometimes you might know a little about yourself.
I have found more important than what people "know me as" is a fact I hang my hat on:
Nobody knows me like You
You put Your arms around me
You bring me through
And there's many times I don’t know what to do
Though some know me well
Still nobody knows me like You
I have had nights of tears when scriptures failed me, consolation or comfort was gone, no one was there but a song as a cry from my heart when I couldn't even voice the words but listen to my sobbing as words rang out to my ears to hear :
In the beginning I never knew
Just how much I really needed You
More than a friend, someone I could talk to
You’ve changed me in so many ways.
I have found out over the years that I am changing. Besides getting older, God is changing me in ways I can't see and often didn't realize, Sins once so easy to attract me are less interesting, people see someone I would never describe myself to be.
Years have rolled by and I realize, even I don't know me and I like that.
Nobody really knows me and I am surprised pleasantly most of the time by what God has done and how he has remade me into someone different than who I used to be. I never saw it coming, but I know it is happening.
God loves you. The most important thing is God loves you and knows you better than you know yourself. He loves you in such a way that once you are his, He doesn't leave you the way you are, he continues to make you into a person you always wanted to be.
Sometimes you help him, sometimes you hinder him but you know what else in so important about Him knowing you?
All of those nights that I was afraid
I stood on the promises You have made
The way that I act sometimes l am ashamed
But You’ve never turned me away, no, no, no
In all of your failings, in all of your success, in all the times you turned your head and pretended you did not know Him, the one thing that is a blessing to you beyond measure or price is the fact that nobody knows you like Jesus does and He will never, ever, leave you. Never.
In the beginning I never knew
Just how much I really needed You
More than a friend, someone I could talk to
You’ve changed me in so many ways.
Nobody knows me like You
You put Your arms around me
You bring me through
And there's many times I don’t know what to do
Though some know me well
Still nobody knows me like You
All of my secrets to You I tell
You saw each time that I slipped and fell
And all of my faults yes, You know them well
But You’ve never turned me away, no, no, no
Nobody knows me like You
You put Your arms around me
You bring me through
And there's many times I don’t know what to do
Though some know me well
Still nobody knows me like You
Walkin’ in your presence is where I wanna be
You said in Your Word, You said that You would lead me
Yes I love You, oh, I really love You
I’II go anywhere
As long as I know you’ll be there
All of those nights that I was afraid
I stood on the promises You have made
The way that I act sometimes l am ashamed
But You’ve never turned me away, no, no, no
You put Your arms around me
You bring me through
And there's many times I don’t know what to do
Though some know me well
Still nobody knows me like You
Words & Music by Benny Hester
