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10 Ways to
Know Jesus Better

You have come to know Jesus, but you want to know him better. Any relationship takes time and intentionality to develop. Below you’ll find ten devotionals, each giving you a way to know Jesus better. The goal is that they would equip you to know how to keep pursuing Jesus for a lifetime.  

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You met Jesus and your life changed.

You met Jesus and your life changed. You discovered that the Jesus we read about in the Bible is alive and powerfully at work in your life.

You have realized the weight of your sin, and it’s broken your heart. You have felt cut to the heart about your sin and learned that Jesus is the only one who can cleanse you from it, rescue you from its punishment, and save you from its power (Acts 2:37).

You believed that Jesus’ death on the cross paid for all your sins and that because he suffered for you, you are forgiven by God. You have received Jesus’ gift of righteousness, believing that when God looks at you, he no longer sees your sins and failures, he sees his beloved child clothed in Jesus’ perfection.

You have come to know Jesus Christ as the true God, and as your Lord and your Savior. And you have experienced the life-changing power of God’s Word—the Bible (1 Thessalonians 1:4-5).

When God did this miracle in your heart, he brought you out of death into life (Ephesians 2:1, 4-5). When you believed in Jesus, God gave you the gift of eternal life (John 3:16).

Eternal life is more than living in heaven with God forever. It’s more than something to look forward to. Eternal life is something you have right now.

This is how the Bible defines eternal life:

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:3 ESV)

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (1 John 5:11)

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. (1 John 5:20)

Eternal life is a person—Jesus. Knowing Jesus is having eternal life. True life is a life lived in relationship with Jesus. Your sin kept you from having a relationship with God, because he would be unjust to draw near to you in love when you deserved his just condemnation. But paid your record of debt on the cross, so that you could be made right in God’s sight and drawn into a loving relationship with him (Colossians 2:13-14).

True, abundant, eternal life—the life you were created for—is a life of knowing Jesus. Simply put, true life is life with Jesus.

No, we can’t see him or touch him. But like anybody else, we can get to know him personally. Even though you don’t see him, you love him, and you will grow to love him more (1 Peter 1:8).

So how do you get to know Jesus and start living life to the fullest? Glad you asked. Here are 10 ways to know Jesus better.

10 Ways to Know Jesus Better

Ask for help.

To get to know Jesus, you need Jesus’ help! The good news is, Jesus has already given you the best help you could ask for.

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Listen to Jesus everyday.

To get to know anyone better, you have to listen to them. When you want a relationship with someone, you want to hear their thoughts, their dreams, their opinions, what makes them laugh, what makes them sad, and their whole life story.

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Talk to Jesus often.

Getting to know Jesus isn’t all about listening to him. Every relationship includes two people getting to know one another. Jesus wants to know you too!

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Plan quality time with Jesus.

Let’s say there’s someone you want to become better friends with. Would you be content to talk to them only in passing—like for only three minutes at a time? Definitely not. When we want to get to know someone, we spend time with them.

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Meet with Jesus.

Jesus lives in you by his Spirit. But Jesus also lives in every one of his followers (John 14:17). You can meet with Jesus in solitude because he lives in you. But the Bible most often encourages us to seek Jesus by meeting with his people (Hebrews 10:25).

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Get to know Jesus' friends.

Although you have God’s Spirit living inside of you, and you may have a church community where you meet weekly with Jesus and his people, you need people who love Jesus by your side day-to-day.

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Join Jesus at work.

All throughout the Bible, Jesus has told you what he is up to. He shares with you his heart, intentions, plans, desires, and priorities. He has done so because you are his friend, and he wants you to join him in his work.

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Hold Jesus’ hand through hard times.

None of us enjoys the hard times in life. But those of us who know Jesus, know that difficulty serves to strengthen our relationship with him. The way this happens is a mystery to us, and a miracle.

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Read about Jesus.

When you desire to know someone better, your curiosity leads you to find out as much as you can about them. One way to get to know Jesus is to listen to what he has done in the lives of others throughout all of history!

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Express how badly you want to know Him.

Jesus knows we are physical people and sometimes need object lessons to help us relate to him. He gave us a special discipline to help us express our love and longing for him. It’s called fasting.

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Knowing Jesus is the greatest adventure of your life.

Knowing Jesus is the greatest adventure of your life. Remember—knowing Jesus brings you life because Jesus himself is life (John 14:6). Knowing Jesus takes intentional effort, just like any other relationship in your life, but you will find that Jesus pursues you more kindly, sincerely, powerfully, and lovingly than anyone else in all the world. If you truly belong to him, he will seek you more than you will ever seek him, because he loves you and has made you his own.

Remember that while you were still a sinner, Jesus came and died for you (Romans 5:8). While you were dead in your sins, Jesus made you alive (Ephesians 2:5). While you were enslaved to sin, Jesus came and set you free from its power and gave you his own Spirit so that you would have the power to obey him (Romans 8:1-4).

Jesus is the one who brought you into a relationship with him, and Jesus is the one who will ultimately keep you in a relationship with him (Jude 1:24). Hebrews says he is both the founder and the perfector of your faith (Hebrews 12:2). When you think about your life with Jesus, think of it like this:

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20 ESV)

Your life with Jesus is not a life of doing good things but instead is a life of trusting in a good person—the only good person, a perfect person—trusting everything that he says and living in humble dependence on him (Mark 10:18). Your life with Jesus is not marked by earning God’s favor, as though his love for you depends on your efforts. Rather, life with Jesus is marked by lovingly hearing and obeying his Word, because we want to live in a way that honors and pleases the one who we are convinced already loves us (John 14:21; 1 John 4:19).

Nothing can ever separate us from God’s love (Romans 8:38-39). Our joyful response to God’s love is to love him back by striving to live in a way that honors him and by trusting him (Ephesians 5:10; John 6:29).

OUR PRAYER FOR YOU

May Jesus’ words be the most precious words in your life. May Jesus’ cross be the most precious evidence to you that you are loved. May Jesus’ open ear to you as you pray be your greatest refuge. May Jesus’ glory be your greatest goal. May Jesus’ presence be your greatest joy.

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