Psalm 139 Ramble

Consider with me these words of the psalmist.

 

 

"O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.” – Psalm 139:1-6

 

 

Our Lord is no stranger to our longings; He by His very nature knows us better than we could possibly know ourselves. “Intimately acquainted with all my ways”, the psalmist writes. INTIMATELY. Do we even grasp the implication of this? The God who created all that has ever been or will be concerns Himself with the infinitesimal details of our finite lives. Remember who this God is when you read these words. We are not talking metaphorically, rather very specifically and exact. The Lord scrutinizes our paths and our lying down. Grasp at this for a second. The Lord understands you; He knows what makes you the person you are. He formed you before the reality of time, before creation was realized. This very One who made life burst forth, placed us among His creation to take part in His gift of life. Everything we are belongs to Him. Creation exists because He spoke. And He searches my thoughts, what does he expect to find?  He does it for us to know Him, not because there is anything in our minds that would entertain Him. Our life is for one purpose only, and in that purpose we have fulfillment offered. Fulfillment is offered in the privilege to join creation in praising its creator as infinitely worthy as we find our place in the mission of God. The sun rises day after day with calculable consistency because there is a creator that spoke purpose to the sun, and the sun dare not find a purpose greater than which it was created to carry out.