God knows everything and everybody. Yet, the Bible says that it is only Christians who love God who are known by God (1 Corinthians 8:3, Galatians 4:8-9). How did we come to be known by God when he already knew us?
We came to be known by God in a qualitatively different way. Before he knew us children of wrath, but now he knows us as his children.
Paralleling this everybody knows God (Psalm 19; Romans 1:19) even if they suppress that knowledge. However, in becoming a Christian we come to know God but in a different way. Not as your judge, but as your saviour. Not as distant, but as close. Caught between the times we know him this way only in part, but when he comes again we will know him fully (1 Corinthians 13:12). But it is more important that he knows us fully; and he does know us fully, closely and savingly as his children already (Romans 8:27, Galatians 4:8-9).
It is like knowing someone as your manger, but then you leave the place of work meet him at the local pub and begin to know him as your friend. The former knowledge was not a false knowledge, but the second knowledge is the better knowledge and supersedes the previous knowledge. Before you knew him, but now you know his heart.
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