Galatians 4:9 says, But now since you KNOW God and have become KNOWN by Him… that word know(n) is the word ginosko in the Greek. One of its meanings is: A knowledge grounded on personal EXPERIENCE. It also has a meaning of the closest intimacy.
It is unfathomable that God KNOWS us down to the hairs on our head, and He thinks about us more than the grains of sand. He truly has encountered us, but has our head-knowledge about God become an experience? Has our KNOWING become an intimate encounter with Him? Perhaps, we, the Gentiles, are more concerned with gaining knowledge as academia. Our culture deeply values this too. The knowing about God is important, but our God is living! Therefore these two; the academia AND the encounter must work together. The head and the heart need to connect.
This is our prayer and heart for Counting the Grains; that we move to KNOWing God by means of experience while also having the revelation through Rhema words that we are KNOWN by Him.