often we don’t grasp this aspect of his character. After all, it is not easy for us to imagine that we have this much significance in God’s life. Our incredulity only emphasizes the shortcomings not only in what but also in how we have come to know things about God through our experiences in our families. More to the point, it emphasizes what our experience of being known has been like. You cannot know God if you do not experience being known by him. The degree to which you know God is directly reflected