But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:18

I’ve spent very little time watching reality TV, but most of the contestants seems to participate in those shows to find love or win money.

But, according to an article written back in September 2022, a different outcome happened when twin sisters, Emily and Molly, who recently competed on The Amazing Race, had another reason for being on the show. Born in South Korea and separated at birth, the sisters were both adopted by families in the United States. Thanks to DNA testing, they found each other at the age of 36. One year later, they were traveling the world together on The Amazing Race. As Molly said in an interview, “It was a really nice way to get to know each other in a very unconventional setting. We would have never gotten this close had we not been able to spend time without phones or away from family, just one-on-one together.”

Isn’t that interesting? The art of getting to know one another is being lost with phones and texting and all the other convenient technologies that are available today.  Not only are relationships getting more and more difficult to build between people, but taking time to get to know God is becoming more and more rare. 

We might know about God, just as the sisters eventually knew about each other, but we to seek to know Him on a far deeper level. In Jeremiah 29:13, God says, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”  

As we run the Christian race, are we looking to get to know God more, or are we distracted by our phones and the busyness of life? Let’s take some time today, and every day, to step away from the distractions of everyday life and spend time getting to know our Heavenly Father more.

Author and theologian, J. I. Packer once wrote:

            “We are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose 

            world it is and who runs it.”