To Be Known By God

Now that Paul has mentioned the condition the Galatians were enslaved in with idolatry prior to knowing God in the deep, personal, intimate sense – he reminds them again that their salvation by grace alone brought about the most powerful, life-saving, life-transforming relationship they could ever know: to be known by God.

Basically, Paul's question to the Galatian believers is this:

‘Now that you have received the greatest gift that any human can receive; now that you have reached the loftiest goal that any human could achieve; now that you have been sought by God and bought by God – how is it that you could return to the “weak and worthless elemental things” from your former life?' This is mind-boggling.

THE most important pursuit in life; THE most significant achievement in life is to know God and be known by Him.

J. I. Packer, in his excellent classic, "Knowing God," asks and answers life's ultimate question: “What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the ‘eternal life' that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God” (p33).