Psalm 139:1-16
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
God knows everything about us. He knows our thoughts (verse 2), our actions (verse 3), and our words (verse 4). This can be both good news and bad news. The bad news is if we think we can keep something secret from God. Typically we try to keep our sexual sins a secret. But the fact is that God saw everything we did. We have no secrets before God. There is nowhere that we can go to escape His view (verses 7-12). The next time we are tempted to sin we would do well to remember that God is in the room with us, watching us. The omniscience and omnipresence of God is also the good news, for God knows us like no one else, yet still loves us. This realization can be very liberating, for it enables us to trust ourselves to an almighty Creator (verses 13-16).
Heavenly Father, You see all and know all. Help me to be mindful of your Presence in my life, and thank you for accepting me.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
God knows everything about us. He knows our thoughts (verse 2), our actions (verse 3), and our words (verse 4). This can be both good news and bad news. The bad news is if we think we can keep something secret from God. Typically we try to keep our sexual sins a secret. But the fact is that God saw everything we did. We have no secrets before God. There is nowhere that we can go to escape His view (verses 7-12). The next time we are tempted to sin we would do well to remember that God is in the room with us, watching us. The omniscience and omnipresence of God is also the good news, for God knows us like no one else, yet still loves us. This realization can be very liberating, for it enables us to trust ourselves to an almighty Creator (verses 13-16).
Heavenly Father, You see all and know all. Help me to be mindful of your Presence in my life, and thank you for accepting me.