The first six verses of David’s song magnifies God’s omniscience – his vast knowledge, his all-knowing mind – AND pervades the entire song. To think that God knows everything about me causes me to marvel like it did David (6). From what I read here, I understand that God knows me better than I know myself. His knowledge is a searchlight into the deepest recesses of my being, even those thought-closets I want to keep hidden. Even if I willingly open the closet doors to let God in, there is still that little shoe box on the top shelf I don’t want him to know about. But who am I kidding? He already knows all its contents. Everything about me is scanned & searched & found out, discovered & uncovered by God’s all-knowing mind. When I sit down to read my Bible in the morning or to rest throughout the day or rise up to get back to work, and what I’m thinking when I do either – God knows it all (2).
God knows the direction my life is headed and what I do each day and when I lie down at the end of each day (3a). He’s very acquainted with all my idiosyncrasies (3b). He knows every word I’m going to to say even before I say it (4). (Perhaps I should think more about my words before I speak them. Ya’ think?!!) I am not alone on my journey, because God’s invisible hand of protection and power is there guiding me, even though I may be unaware of it (5).
This kind of intimate, personal acquaintance is truly “too-wonderful for me” – or as Billy Crystal might say, too “marvelous” (6). It would be scary if it wasn’t so very comforting. What’s most comforting about such knowledge? It is to know that “He who knows me best loves me most.” A friend once told me years ago when I shared some of my personal struggles with him that I am a whole lot worse than I am even aware of, but at the same time God loves me more than I can ever imagine. And THAT is something I can’t fathom. It’s truly beyond me like it was David (6b). So, when I pray and ask God to search me and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts (23), I can rest assured that he will and he does.
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