Lord, I Want to Know You More.

Thursday, 2 July 2026Philippians 3:10

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Philippians 3:10·WEB Translation

That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, becoming conformed to His death,

Devotional

Chasing That Again Feeling

Every night, almost without exception, at the moment, Theo asks for the same book. I’ve started letting him finish each sentence as he knows it by heart.

He doesn’t get bored even though he knows the story or has looked at the pictures every night for 4 weeks. If anything, it is the reason he wants it.

I have read the Bible from cover to cover twice in my life. Once at fourteen or fifteen. Again in my twenties. Both times, I remember it feeling less like a task and more like I could not put it down, one book leading into the next because I needed to know what came next.

I have not done that in my thirties. These days, it is whole books here and there, a lot of picking and choosing, a verse for the day I’m having, a Psalm for the season I’m in. Scripture I reach for because I need something from it, not because I am trying to be near Him.

And if I am honest, there have been whole seasons where even that has felt flat. Opening the same pages and feeling less like I am meeting God and more like I am going through motions I know I am supposed to keep.

Writing these devotionals every day has actually done something for that. Digging into a verse to write about it has made me look at Scripture differently again, made me curious in a way I had not been for a while.

But even that is not quite what I am chasing. I want to know Jesus the way Theo knows that book: not information gathered from a distance, but the way you know a friend, through time spent together. Someone I want again and again, not because I need something from Him, but because I cannot get enough of Him.

Paul wrote from a prison cell, after a lifetime spent giving everything for the gospel, "That I may know Him." Not learn more facts about Him. But to truly know Him.

If your reading has gone flat, whole seasons of duty instead of desire, that doesn’t mean it’s over between you and God. This was never a season to get through and be done with.

We could spend the rest of our lives reading the Bible and still not know Him enough. That’s not a discouraging thought, it’s just what it looks like to love someone infinite. You never run out of reasons to come back.

That is the "again" I want, the one Theo has with his book every night. Not more information about God. Just more of Him.

Lord, I want to know You more.

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Prayer

Lord, I want to know You more, to move beyond surface knowledge into deep relationship, to understand Your heart not just Your Word, to experience You not just learn about You.

I've settled for knowing about You when what I really want is to know You personally, intimately, the way friends know each other through time spent together.

Teach me how to pursue knowing You, what it looks like to grow in relationship with You, to deepen connection beyond Sunday mornings and crisis prayers.

I want to know Your character, Your voice, Your ways, to recognize how You work, understand how You think, perceive how You move in my life and the world.

Help me prioritize time with You, to choose relationship over information, to seek Your presence more than Your presents, to desire You more than what You can do for me.

Remind me that knowing You is a lifelong journey not a destination, that there's always more to discover, deeper to go, further into Your heart I can explore.

Give me hunger that keeps me pursuing You, curiosity that keeps me asking questions, devotion that keeps me coming back for more, never satisfied with how well I know You now.

Let me grow in knowing You today and every day, going deeper in relationship, understanding You better, loving You more, pursuing the God I want to know fully.

In Jesus' name,

Amen.

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