"And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." (John 17:3) "Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments." (1 John 2:3)

When my son was a small boy playing with his buddies in the back yard, I overheard them talking; and the conversation was, amusingly, one of those 'My dad can whip your dad' routines. I heard one boy proudly say, "My dad knows the mayor of our town!" Then I heard another say, "That's nothing; my dad knows the governor of our state!" Wondering what was coming next in the program of bragging, I presently heard a wonderfully familiar voice (that of my own little son), saying, "That's nothing; my dad knows God!"

I swiftly slipped away from my place of eaves-dropping, with tears running down my cheeks. I dropped on my knees in my room and prayed earnestly and gratefully, "Oh, God, I pray that my boy will always be able to say, 'My dad knows God.'" (From Hilding Halverson)