The Surprising Comfort Of God’s Constant Gaze What God Knows About You That You Don’t - Ps.139 Series

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Psalm 139:1 O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. 5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 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, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. 19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Introduction

How Interested is God in You?

With all the planets in the universe, and all the billions of people in the world, the animals, governments, nations, kingdoms - everything that is going on in the whole universe - how much does God keep up with your life? How often does God pull up your Facebook page to check in on how you are doing and what has been going on with you lately? Has God thought specifically about you today? Whatever the biggest event in your life happened to be over the past 24 hours (positive or negative) - did that event have any impact at all on God’s emotions? What about the small things that happened? Did God care about the trouble you had getting to sleep - or the difficulty of getting up out of bed this morning? Does He care if you have some heartburn, or have a bad hair day? The answer is in the opening verses of Psalm 139.

Psalm 139:1 O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise

Why would God pay attention to when you sit down? Raise your hand if you can tell me how many times you sat down and stood up just in the past 24 hours? You were not even paying enough attention to your life to notice that, and God is concerning Himself with it? That means God is concerned about smaller details in your life than even you are concerned with.

God Knows You

Psalm 139 is a favorite text people go to for the doctrine of the omniscience of God. Omniscience means God knows everything. Everything. He knows everything that has ever happened, He knows everything that is happening now, He knows everything that will happen - He even knows everything that could have happened but didn’t. In some cases Jesus would say, “If this had happened, then this would have happened." God is the only one who knows what would have happened if things were different. God knows the whole string of changes that would have taken place if one factor changed. If the light would have turned red instead of green - and the whole string of alterations that would have caused going forward for everyone all the way until the end of time. He knows every possibility. God knows not only what you said in your last conversation, but He knows what you would have said if the person you were talking to would have responded differently. Or how you would have acted if you had gotten less sleep last night. God is fully versed on every detail of the life of every creature. Nothing ever escapes His notice, nothing slips by Him, and He never forgets anything. God knows instantly and effortlessly all matters, all minds, all spirits, all creatures, all truths, all events, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all feelings, all desires, all inclinations, all things visible and invisible in heaven and earth, all motion - everything that is happening in space and time, and in heaven and in hell. He knows all mysteries, all enigmas, and all paradoxes. To Him, there is no such thing as a paradox, because a paradox is when two things seem like they contradict each other but in reality they do not.