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There is a single verse in the Bible that most Christians read right past, and it is one of the most terrifying warnings Jesus ever gave. It does not comfort you. It does not encourage you. It forces you to ask the one question most people spend their whole lives avoiding. Am I really saved? Or have I just been assuming I am? Because Jesus said something that should stop every churchgoer cold. He said there will be people who prayed, who worshiped, who served, who gave, who stood in church every Sunday fully believing they were following Him. And on the last day they will stand in front of Him certain they are saved, and hear four words that end everything. Matthew seven, twenty-three. "I never knew you." Not "you didn't understand enough." Not "you didn't read enough." Not "you didn't try hard enough." I never knew you. Read those words again, because the most terrifying part is the word in the middle. Knew. Jesus does not reject them for ignorance. He rejects them because He never knew them. They were never close to Him. They had His name on their lips and His book on their shelf, but they never walked with Him a single day of their lives. They had attendance. They never had a relationship. That wrecked me. Because I grew up in church. I was baptized. I went to youth group. I prayed before meals. For over forty years I was certain I was fine. But if someone had pulled me aside and asked me when I had last truly walked with God, just me and Him, outside of a Sunday service, I would not have had an answer. I knew all about God. I had never truly known Him. And that verse terrified me, because I realized I might be exactly the kind of person Jesus was warning about. One of the many who are certain they know Him, and never really did. I want you to think about something right now. Not how many Sundays you have sat in a pew. Not how many sermons you have heard. Not how many verses you can quote. When was the last time you truly walked with God. Just you and Him. Outside of church. On an ordinary day. If you have to think hard about the answer, you are not alone. I could not answer it either. Because three years ago, that was the exact thing I finally brought to my pastor. It was after service on a Sunday. I pulled him aside and confessed something I had never told anyone. That I had been in church my entire life, but I had no real walk with God at all. And that the verse in Matthew seven had been keeping me up at night. He looked at me and said something I will never forget. "You need to build a habit of walking with God every single day, especially when it feels like He is not saying anything back. That is where you come to know Him. That is the difference between the people He knows and the people He does not." I nodded like I had it figured out. But the truth is I had no idea how to even begin. I had tried before. Devotionals. Bible reading plans. Study journals. Every Christian app on my phone. And every single time it played out the same way. I would start strong, sure this time would be different. Then life would get in the way. I would miss a day. And eventually I would quit. And every time I quit, I felt worse than before I started. Like I had failed God again. Like I was only proving I was one of the many He would turn away. The guilt was crushing. And it pushed me further from Him, not closer. That night I sat at my kitchen table for a long time, thinking about what my pastor said about building a daily habit with God. I needed something simple enough that I would do it every single day, no matter how tired or busy or behind I was. Not something that demands an hour I do not have. Not something that makes me feel like a failure the second I miss a day. Not something that assumes I already have more time, more discipline, and more Bible knowledge than I do. Something built for someone exactly like me. I opened my laptop right there at the table and started searching. Reading reviews. Looking at what other men had tried, and what had worked for them. And that is when I found it. The One Minute with God for Men devotional. I almost scrolled past it. Sixty seconds a day sounded too simple. Too short. How could one minute build the kind of walk with God I had been missing for forty years? But I was desperate. Everything else had failed. And one minute was the only commitment I trusted myself to keep. So I ordered it. When it arrived I sat down with it the next morning, before anyone else in the house was awake. I opened it to the first day. There was a theme across the top of the page. And it was not some generic feel-good message. It was a real struggle men carry, and it happened to be something I was wrestling with that very week. Then a Scripture passage that spoke straight to it. Then a short devotion that broke down exactly what to do with it. Then a prayer I could pray right there in the moment. I closed the book. Sixty seconds had passed. That was it. The next morning I did it again. Same thing. Sixty seconds. A different theme. A different Scripture. A different prayer. By the end of the first week something felt different. Like I had walked with God that week. Not heard about Him on a Sunday. Walked with Him, every morning, one minute at a time. By the end of the first month, my wife noticed. She looked at me one morning and said something is different about you. The way you talk. The way you handle things. Something has changed. I knew exactly what it was. For the first time in over forty years, I was walking with God every single day. Not because someone told me to. Not because it was Sunday and it was expected. Because I wanted to. That is when the verse that had terrified me for so long finally made sense. Jesus was not warning the people who stumble and fail and struggle with sin. He was warning the people who have His name and His church and His traditions, but never walk with Him. People who have attendance instead of relationship. People who are certain they know Him, and never spent a real day in His presence in their lives. That had been me for forty years. You cannot know someone you never spend time with. You would never call a man your closest friend if you only heard about him from other people once a week. You would never say you truly know your wife if you only spoke to her on Sundays. But that is exactly what I had been doing with God. Showing up on Sunday. Going through the motions. Hearing the sermon. Walking out the door and not spending one minute with Him until the next week. That is not a relationship. That is attendance. And attendance is the exact thing Jesus was warning about. This devotional changed that. It is simple enough that you keep showing up. And deep enough that it changes how you walk through the rest of your day. My pastor was right all along. I did not need more sermons. I needed to build a habit. This devotional gave me the structure to do it. And it gave me the one thing I had been missing for four decades. A real walk with God. The kind Jesus actually knows. Not based on attendance. Not based on facts. Not based on highlighted verses I never fully understood. Based on sixty seconds every morning. Just me and Him. Jesus said that on the last day, many, not a few, but many, will stand in front of Him certain they are saved, and hear the words I never knew you. The difference between the people He knows and the people He does not was never how often they attended. It was whether they walked with Him. So let me ask you the question that kept me up at night. Does He know you? Not do you know about Him. Does He really know you. Have you walked with Him, even one minute, today? If you have been in church your whole life but you have never truly walked with God, I understand. That was me for forty years. But you do not have to stay there. And you do not have to live under that fear anymore. This devotional was built to help you finally walk with Him. Sixty seconds a day. One minute at a time. Click below to get yours before they sell out again.