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Before C.S. Lewis died, he wrote something that has stayed with me ever since. "To know God is to know Him personally, not just to know about Him. Anything less is just information." Think about what that means coming from that man. The author of Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia. Over 200 million books sold worldwide. Widely regarded as the most influential Christian apologist of the 20th century. And at the end of all of it, his greatest warning to the church was this. The greatest deception among Christians today is believing you know God because you know facts about God. You can quote Scripture from memory, name every book of the Bible in order, and sit in church for decades carrying a highlighted Bible and a heart full of sincerity. And still not truly know Him. Not know about Him. Know Him. That warning wrecked me. Because I had been going to church for over forty years. And I realized I was exactly the kind of Christian C.S. Lewis was talking about. I want you to think about something right now. Think about your real relationship with God for a moment. Not how often you've sat in a church pew, or how many sermons you've listened to, or how many Bible verses you can quote off the top of your head. Your actual relationship with Him. When was the last time you sat with God one on one? Just you and Him. Because three years ago, that was the exact question I finally brought to my pastor. It was after service on a Sunday, and I had pulled him aside to confess something I had never told anyone. That I had been going to church most of my life, but I had no real personal relationship with God. He looked at me and said something I will never forget. “You need to build a habit of showing up for God every single day, especially when it feels like He isn't speaking back. That's where relationship is actually built.” I nodded like I had it figured out, but honestly I had no idea how to even begin building a habit with God. I had tried devotionals before, along with Bible reading plans, study journals, and every popular Christian app I could find on my phone. And every single time, it played out the same exact way. I would start strong, fully convinced this time was going to be different. Then life would get in the way, I would miss a day, and eventually quit. And every time I quit, I felt worse than I did before I ever started. The guilt was never really about failing the plan. The guilt was about failing God again, and I was sick of feeling that way about my own faith. That night I went home and sat at my kitchen table for a long time, thinking about what my pastor said about building a habit with God. I needed something simple enough that I would actually do it every single day, no matter what was going on in my life. Not something that demands an hour I don't have, or makes me feel like a failure the second I miss a day, or assumes I already have more time, more discipline, and more Bible knowledge than I actually do. Something designed for someone exactly like me. I opened my laptop right there at the table and started searching online, reading reviews, and looking at what other men had tried and what had actually worked for them. And that's 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 actually change anything? But I was desperate. Everything else had failed. And honestly 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 my house was awake. I opened it to the first day. There was a theme written across the top of the page, and it wasn't some generic feel-good message either. It was a real struggle men actually face, and it happened to be something I was carrying recently. Then a Scripture passage that spoke directly to that struggle. Then a short devotion that broke down exactly what to do with it. Then a prayer I could pray right 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 actually been with God that week. Not heard about Him. Been with Him. 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 changed. I knew exactly what it was. For the first time in over forty years I was spending time with God every single day. Not because someone told me to. Not because I was sitting in a pew and it was expected. Because I wanted to. That's when I finally understood what C.S. Lewis meant. There is a difference between knowing about God and knowing Him. I had been knowing about God my entire life. Hearing sermons about Him. Reading books about Him. Sitting in studies where someone else explained Him to me. But I had never sat with Him on my own. You cannot know someone you never spend time with. You would never call someone your closest friend if you only heard about them from other people once a week. You would never say you truly know your wife if you only talked to her on Sundays. But that is exactly what I had been doing with God for forty years. Showing up on Sunday. Going through the motions. Hearing the sermon. Walking out the door and not spending a single minute with Him until the next week. That is not a relationship. That is attendance. And this devotional changed that. It's simple enough that you actually keep showing up, and deep enough that it genuinely changes how you walk through the rest of your day. And that, in the end, is exactly what C.S. Lewis spent his entire life trying to tell us. It was never about how much we know about God. It was about how well we actually know Him. And the truth is, you cannot know Him without spending real time with Him every single day. My pastor understood that long before I did, and he was right all along. I didn't need more sermons. I needed to build a habit. This devotional gave me the structure to do so. And it gave me something I had been missing for four decades. A real relationship with God. Not based on attendance. Not based on facts. Not based on highlighted verses I didn't fully understand. Based on sixty seconds every morning. Just me and Him. C.S. Lewis wrote more about the Christian faith than almost anyone in modern history. And his greatest message was not about how much he knew. It was about how well he knew Him. Do you know Him? Not know about Him. Know Him. If you have been going to church your whole life but your personal relationship with God is basically nonexistent, I get it. That was me for forty years. But you do not have to stay there. This devotional was built to help you get there. Sixty seconds a day. One minute at a time. Click below and grab yours before they sell out again.