Our Story

The story behind So You Would Know began in February of 2019 as I watched a dear friend and sister in Christ gaze at the setting sun from a rooftop in the Dominican Republic. In a way that I still cannot quite put into words, the gleam in her gaze as the sun reflected off of her face led my soul to marvel at God as He revealed His glory to me in such a real, new way.

God granted me a moment in which, by faith, I was able to recognize Him inviting my attention to Himself. In front of me stood a child of His who understood well that all created things were meant to point beyond themselves to the Creator. And as she gazed at the sun full of awe and wonder, God showed me how she was praising Him simply by being what she was created to be and doing what she was created to do as the sky before her did the same. It was then that I heard the call to return to my purpose.

For as long as I had been a follower of Jesus, I would have been able to tell you that the glory of God is the purpose for which He created all things out of nothing. But in an instant, God changed that truth from mere knowledge of the mind to experiential, intimate knowledge deep within me, making it an altar building moment in my life as He revealed to me how we can show His glory to others by simply acknowledging and delighting in His glory all around.

This is how my friend showed me His glory that evening. I began to refer to the moment as a “So You Would Know” moment according to the truth that God displays His glory to us in the world He created So We Would Know Him, love Him, and show Him to others.

My friend’s name is Maureen, and I had met her only a few days prior to said moment. Over the next few months, I would learn more about God through Maureen as she seemed to view all of life in a way that showed that she deeply knew and loved the Creator. I would learn that she was incredibly receptive to God’s immanence within His works—His very Presence all around—and that she enjoyed and longed for that divine Presence. I would learn that her continual thanksgiving to God was simply the natural response of her heart’s understanding that all is grace. That she was recognizable as a citizen of Heaven as she exemplified well a life lived by faith, defined beautifully by A. W. Tozer as “the gaze of the heart at God.” And that I was but one soul amongst a multitude of others that better knew their Creator because of her.

Maureen’s faith is now sight as the Lord called her Home to Himself in November of that same year. Though through deep sadness of loss, inexpressible joy comes in knowing that she is now gazing at the Face of Christ. I rejoice at the thought of her longing fulfilled and her purpose fully realized now that she is finally with Christ in glory. And it is with that thought that I am tremendously encouraged by her today to repent of my spiritual complacency and turn to God in earnest pursuit. In understanding well my deep need of grace, I resolve to turn away from all else to behold Jesus, the consummator of my faith, as my soul’s only Treasure while He leads me Home.

Though I knew Maureen for only a short season, she is—through her life, suffering, and death—So I Would Know. And I glorify God because of her.

 

SO YOU WOULD KNOW

Because God created all things and is immanent within all His works, He is always seeking to make Himself known to us through all things, seen and unseen, calling our attention back to Himself. Always, everything is So We Would Know.

By viewing life through a So You Would Know lens, so to speak, we will begin to see and understand that God is here, constantly pursuing us and graciously giving us glimpses of His glory all around. As He grants us faith to see Him everywhere, always, may we delight in His glory and resolve to pursue Him in return. 

Will you join us as we seek God in all of the So You Would Know moments of our everyday?

WHY DO WE EXIST?

To encourage receptivity to the expression of God’s glory in His creation So You Would Know Him and thereby return to the purpose for which you were created.

Why?

Because the most important thing about you is that you know God through Jesus Christ. Not just know about Him, but know Him—experientially, personally, and intimately according to His Word. This relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ is the purpose for which you were created and upon it your eternity depends.

So this is why we exist. So You Would Know God, and then spend the rest of your life getting to know Him more. And that in knowing Him more, you might count all else as loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus as Lord. (Philippians 3:8)

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21)