Getting to Know You

My wife and I went to the theatre recently.   To be more specific, we went to see a production of the musical "The King and I" at the Belk Theatre in Charlotte.     While I had seen the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical production in movie form, I believe it was the first time I had seen it presented in the theatre.

As we see the story of Anna the English school teacher unfold in the musical as she teaches the children of the King of Siam, there is an occasion when she sings a song that includes these words:
Getting to know you,  
Getting to know all about you
Getting to like you
Getting to hope you like me. 

While I had heard the song before, the words of that song took on a new meaning that evening.    The words of that song say well what I hope happens in our relationship with God.   God knows you and I.   Our God knows all about us.   How wonderful for us to have the aim to  get to know God.   John 10:14 puts it this way:
I'm the good shepherd.  I know my own and my own know me.  

There are many voices that are competing for our attention in our world today.   With glitz and glitter, they tell us how good the causes they promote are.  Oh, to be able to hear "that still small voice" of God and to get to know God.     I believe that as we get to know God, something happens in us that changes us.  Later in the song "Getting to Know you", Anna puts it this way as she sings:
Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by Day.    

Have a blessed and joy-filled week.-   Pastor Randy Wall

Prayer:    O God, you know me through and through.    Help me to know you more that I might be more like you;  through Christ our Lord.  Amen.