A Heart to Know Me

October 12

Our Creator made us for fellowship with Himself. He had fashioned the vast universe with the word of His mouth (see Genesis, Chapters one and two) and could simply have sat back and delighted in His handiwork, but it had pleased Him to make man to share the wonders of creation with Him.

From the Genesis account, we know that God walked with Adam and Eve until their sin caused them to hide themselves from Him. Nothing can be hidden from the eye of the Holy One, but He sought His fallen masterpiece of creation and when He had found them, made a covering for their transgression.

The calamity of their fall from grace lay most profoundly in their loss of fellowship with the One who had made them for Himself. Adam and Eve, after being given the privilege of naming the creatures God had made and communing with Him daily, were now reduced to accepting the shed blood of animals to cover their sin.

But the Lover of their souls would not leave them in this state of separation from all that is holy and good, from all that makes life worthwhile. No. He made provision for them to return to Him again! In Jeremiah 24:7 He says very clearly, “I will give them a heart to know Me...They will be My people and I will be their God.” Jesus fulfills this promise for all who will receive Him as Savior.