Ever wonder how friends are made? I guess there are a variety of ways; you have common interests, or you see each other often enough, or something draws you to a person. And through all that you suddenly become friends. What kind of friend you become to them, or they to you, depends on a factor called knowing!
Do you know about your friend? Like how they've played cello for 12 years, read the Wall street news all the time, and always have coffee in the morning before class or work? You know they go to church, like to go fishing for a hobby. Or that they like to go party, socialize, bars, whatever. And maybe you even go and do some of those activities with them. But do you know them?
Or do you just know about them?
Knowing someone is entirely different than knowing about them. Knowing implies a depth that goes beyond factual and shallow interaction. To know someone is to in someways become vulnerable to them, as well as they becoming vulnerable to you. It takes friendship to a new level that is far more exciting than the general humdrum.
When you know someone, you know what hurts them, you know what makes them truly laugh; you understand them mostly or partly. And you build into their lives by enriching them. It goes so much more beyond simply knowing about them, and doing the knowing about stuff with them...you know? Depth always reveals surprising things. One last thought to finish this off, which I find, amazing, mind-staggering and vastly interesting to think about....Jesus knows all of us already, intimately, and to the very depth of our soul. Do we know Him? Or simply about Him? Thought to ponder...
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