'Nathanael asked Jesus, “Where did you get to know me?”' St John 1.48

How well does anyone know you? Marriage is the most intimate of relationships. Yet even after many years of marriage, spouses don't ever fully know their partners. Friends are important throughout life, but we never completely disclose ourselves to them.

Many people today are engaged in the age-old quest of discovering themselves. Youth in particular come to mind, but even throughout life into old age we continue to come to realizations about ourselves as we change and develop and grow.

Our Psalm for this coming Sunday reminds us of Him who knows us more fully than we can ever know ourselves. Listen again to this marvelous self-reflection and quiet trust from the Psalmist: “O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path...and are acquainted with all my ways. ...If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.”

And St Paul echoes this wondrous sentiment when he says in his great chapter on love, 1 Corinthians 13: “Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.”

God knows us. And God loves us. Take comfort in that and entrust your whole life into his hands.