Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s why God created us.\u00c2\u00a0 Not simply to believe in him, though that is a good beginning.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only to obey him, though that is a higher life still.\u00c2\u00a0 God created us for intimate fellowship with himself, and in doing so he established the goal of our existence — to know him, love him, and live our lives in an intimate relationship with him.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus says that eternal life is to know God (John 17:3).\u00c2\u00a0 Not just “know about” like you know about the ozone layer or Ulysses S. Grant.\u00c2\u00a0 He means know as two people know each other, know as Jesus knows the Father — intimately.<\/p>\n
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