This blog is about panting after God as a hart pants after water. It is about knowing God. And it came about because of my knowledge that I don’t know and pant after God as I ought, and as I wish I would.

So what am I to make of this verse in Hebrews 8?

“And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest” (11).

A day is coming when I will know God as He wishes me to know Him.

Wow! That is so much richer a knowledge than knowing Him only as I wish to know Him. My desire is shallow and finite; His, deep and infinite. And I get to know Him that way!

In the meantime, I must continue panting after Him.

In the meantime, I need neighbors and brothers to teach me, “Know the Lord.”

(And I need to teach my neighbors and brothers that very same thing.)

I am so far from perfect.

I went to bed last night, made aware (again and keenly) of my imperfections as a father, as a brother, as a man, and as a mission board chairman.

I got up this morning…with my condition unchanged.

Then I read this:

“For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God” (Hebrews 7:19).

My condition remains the same. But my focus is slightly different. So I need to keep changing my focus back to what it ought to be.

Changing my focus. Changing, changing, changing. Until the fuzziness is gone. Until my vision is clear and sharp.

Of Him. The One on Whom I need to hope (ie depend).