The word for “know” in the Old and New Testament means to know someone personally, not just know about them. There are 3 people in the Bible that come to mind when I think about “knowing” God – Moses, David and Saul. When God asked Moses to take the children of Israel into the promised land Moses said to God, “Show me your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight” (Ex 33:13; NKJV). He even went to tell God that if His presence did not go with them, he would rather stay in the wilderness (verse 15). King David reveals his desire to know God in Psalm 63:1 when he says, “Early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water” (NKJV). (See also Psalm 42:1,2). By reading the Psalms we can see how deep David’s knowledge of God actually became. In addition, he was called a man after God’s heart (1 Sam 13:4; Acts 13:22). Then we read in Philippians chapter 3, where Paul says that everything is worthless (even garbage) compared to being able to know Jesus (verses 7,8). In verse 10 he says, “I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead” (NLT). Let’s pray today for a hunger and thirst to know God like these men of old did and to make this quest more important than anything else in our lives.