GOD KNOWS ME...HE REALLY KNOWS ME

God Knows Me...He Really Knows Me "O LORD, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in-behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain." Psalm 139:1-6 This passage has always given me hope but it also has been very convicting. That the Lord God would want to know me is beyond my comprehension. He chooses to search me and be concerned about even the smallest detail of my life. He knows every time I rise and every time I sit down. He even knows what I am thinking. Before I speak, He is aware of what I will say. These truths should convict us of our sin and cause us to really evaluate our motives and behavior. The Psalmist goes on to even say that the Lord goes before us and behind us and even has His hand on us. Wow! These truths really rock my world. The God of the Universe, the One who holds this world in orbit, the One who has all living creatures on His mind, is concerned about puny me. "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like t he day, for darkness is as light to you." Psalm 139:7-12 There are two ways this passage can be read. God's omnipresence is expressed in a way that reminds us that we cannot hide from Him. There are no "secret sins" that we can hide from God. On the other hand, the presence of God is reassuring because it reminds us that we can go nowhere where God is not. Should our lives be taken, our soul will be immediately in the presence of the Almighty. The grave cannot separate my body from the love of my Savior, who will raise it a glorious body. No outward circumstances can separate me from my Lord. "For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because 1 am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are Your thoughts,0 God! How vast is the sum of them. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand." Psalm 139:13-l8 God loves you and has loved you from the very beginning of time and will continue to love you for eternity! PRAISE THE LORD! Aaron Hodges