Knowing Christ

   Today I was working with a new missionary, Elder Van Wagenen. I like this missionary! He's a good guy. He's picking up missionary work quick!

   We were out tracting (knocking on doors) in the blazing October Vallejo heat. (Shouldn't it be cold by now? Anyway.) We were speaking with a young man at his door step and I asked him, "Do you feel like you are close to your Savior?"

   He contemplatively looked up and rolled the question around in his mind for a moment. He soon responded with, "Eh. Close enough." I carried on the conversation, but I don't remember what was said. Soon, we parted ways and Elder Van Wagenen and I carried on with our work. 

   Some time later, Elder Van Wagenen started asking me questions about the young man. We talked about him for a moment and I didn't think too much about it. But after the conversation, he stunned me with a rather... well, prophetic statement: If you think you know Christ well enough, you barely know Christ at all.

   It completely caught me off guard and I thought to myself True story.

   It got me thinking. What exactly defines 'close enough'?

   Can you ever do enough to be close enough to Christ?

  

   No, you can't ever be close enough to Him. Ever.