“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”  Job 23:10
 
Job, in the midst of his woes, cried out,
“O that I knew where I might find Him!”  Job 23:3
 
Job has looked forward, backward to the left and to the right (Vs. 8-9) and he can not see God.  But Job is sure that God knows right where he is and Job has the confidence that at the end of his troubles he will come forth as gold.  Do we Believers have that sure confidence when we are in the midst of a hard trial or circumstance?  We surely should.
 
The Believer is intimately known by God:
In our times of trouble,
“The LORD is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And He knows those who take refuge in Him.”  Nahum 1:7
 
Omnipresent God knows our everyday comings and goings -- He sees us at all times!
“Nathanael said to Jesus, ‘How do You know me?’  Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.’”  John 1:48
 
God knows our individual names, 
“But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.”  John 10:2-3
Vs.14,
“I am the good Shepherd; and I know My own and My own know Me.’”
(Verse 14 really tells of the intimate relationship Jesus has with us and we have with Jesus.)
 
The Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 8:3,
“But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.”
God knows those who truly love Him -- He knows the heart of man more than man knows his own heart.
 
Believers stand firm in the sure foundation of God:
“Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal:
‘The Lord knows those who are His,’ and ‘Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.’”  2 Timothy 2:19
 
Jesus said in John 14:6,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life…”  He is life!
Without Jesus Christ we would still be dead in our trespasses and sin.
BUT HE CAME!
 
Jesus tells us in John 10:10,
“The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; 
I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.”
 
To know Him is life!  Through his troubles, Job tells God (and us),
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
BUT NOW my eye sees You.”  Job 42:5  (The Amplified Bible says, “my spiritual eyes see You.)
[The BUT NOW is my emphasis.]
 
Believers, let us seek to have hearts that hunger and thirst to know God in an ever greater measure, for the Psalmist has said,
“Oh taste and see that the LORD is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.”  Psalm 34:8
 
Blessed and holy are you Lord God, all praise and glory are Yours!  Amen