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You cannot have “greater” intimacy with someone you don’t even know! Before we can discuss how to have “greater” intimacy, we must first establish whether or not you already know him and have an intimate relationship with him.

•You could be very “religious” and still not know him.

•You could know “about him” but not really know him.

Almost everyone believes that God exists, but not everyone knows him personally. This is what the apostle Paul also found to be the case when he first preached at Athens in ancient Greece.

“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.

Now what you worship as something un-known I am going to proclaim to you. "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” (Acts 17:22-27 NIV)