Every believer should read and reread Psalm 139 on a regular basis. It is David’s beautiful description of God’s perfect and divine knowledge:
“O Lord, You have searched me and known me … . You understand my thought afar off… . And are acquainted with all my ways.”
The rest of David’s Psalm describes in careful detail every aspect of his life as being in the hand of his loving God. To know this is wonderful! But to live by the truth of this is even more wonder-filled. David says his thoughts, words, paths, physical makeup and enemies are all known to God and carefully guided by God. How secure our life really is when we choose to believe and trust in such a relationship with God. And what a witness to a watching world when we live out this love relationship, releasing our life to God and letting Him express His goodness to us – and through us.
God’s desire is to place us alongside these who are seeking Him diligently that they will find Him in us. Let us in the days ahead live out our lives for God, releasing ourselves to Him and His almighty purposes. May they be filled with His love and His wonders that a lost world can find and experience. And may our prayer – for God’s glory – be that of David’s:
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me; And lead me in the way everlasting.”