He’s All Around Me 1 Of 3

Even older teens sometimes enjoy playing this game. But in all fairness, sometimes they cheat when they play it.

Illus: For example, did you hear about the teenage girl that said to her boy friend, “Let’s play Hide and Seek.”

• He said, “How do you play it?”

• She said “It is simple. I will hide and you try to find me, and if you do I will give you a kiss.”

• But he said, "What if I can't find you?"

• She said, "I'll be behind the piano in the corner."

Little kids, big kids, everyone enjoys playing “Hide and Seek.” They say everyone likes to play it but lawyers, because they know if they go into HIDING, NOBODY WILL LOOK FOR THEM.

But listen, when it comes to us playing this game with God, it is no fun.

Wouldn’t it be tragic if a person sincerely wanted to find God in their life and He was hiding and they couldn’t find Him? I can assure you, based on the Word of God, He does not play this game.

GOD WANTS YOU TO FIND HIM. He already knows where you are and He wants you to discover Him.

But let me ask you a question, “If you found Him, would you recognize Him?”

When some folks talk about God, they give you the impression that they can fool God the same way they can fool mortal man.

Illus: Did you hear about the woodcutter that was cutting a branch of a tree above a river and his ax fell into the river? When he began crying, God appeared.

"Why are you crying?" The woodcutter told Him that he had dropped his ax into water. God went down into the water and reappeared with a golden ax.

"Is this your ax?", God asked. "No"

God again went down and came up with a silver ax. "Is this your ax?", God asked. "No".

God went down again and came up with an iron ax. "Is this your ax?", God asked. "Yes".

God was pleased with the man's honesty and gave him all three axes. The woodcutter went home happily.

One day he was walking with his wife by the river. She was noted to be the ugliest woman in the county.

But it so happens, as they were walking she fell into the river. When he began crying, God appeared again and asked,

"Why are you crying?" He said, "My wife has fallen into river." God went down into the water and came up with the prettiest woman in the county. "Is this your wife?", God asked. “Yes, I believe it is!”

There are people who think they can fool God the same way they fool mortal man. But I am here to tell you they do not know the God of the Bible. When you get to know the God of this Bible, you find you can not FOOL GOD!

Psalm 139 is a wonderful Psalm for those who are looking for God in their life. When you find the God of the Bible, what kind of God will you find?

Let’s look at some of the attributes of God that we find in this Psalm. First, let’s look at-

I. THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD

Look at verses 1-6, we read, “O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”

God is too much for us mortals to comprehend with our minds. That is:

• He does not think like us

• He does not do things like us

Many times this frustrates us mortals.

Illus: Did you hear about the man that was taking it easy, lying on the grass and looking up at the clouds? He was identifying shapes in the clouds, when he decided to talk to God.

• He said to God, "How long is a million years?"

• God answered, "In my frame of reference, it's about a minute."

• The man asked, "God, how much is a million dollars?"

• God answered, "In my frame of reference, it would be the same as a penny."

• The man then asked, "God, can I have a penny?"

• God said, "In a minute."

The psalmist begins this psalm with the realization that God knows all about him. What is amazing about this is that God knows all about us and HE STILL LOVES US.