Depression is a serious affliction that is a lot more common than people want to acknowledge. If we’re honest, most people would have to admit that they’ve felt depressed at one time or another. Loneliness is one cause of depression, and something that many people face day after day, along with feelings that no one cares about them, and feelings that they are worthless. If you have ever felt that way, or if you have those feelings now, then this psalm is for you. This is one of the many psalms that David wrote, one that will show us just how intimately God knows us, and how special we are to Him.
There are some people who are deists, those who believe that God is a distant, remote God who is not concerned with our lives and what is going on in the world, and does not get involved. They may believe that He got the ball rolling with creation in the distant past, but then He just stepped back, and is not involved in our day-to-day goings on. This psalm from Scripture shows that belief is wrong, right from the very first verses. The first segment of our psalm, verses 1-6, show that God knows everything about each and every one of us. He knows what each of us are doing right now. He knows that I just ate breakfast, and what I ate. He knows what clothes I contemplated putting on this morning. He knows what we are thinking about all day long (vs 2), so we really need to keep our thoughts pure and right! He knows everything we say, as well (vs. 4). We may feel that no one really knows us, who we really are, however God knows everything about us. Even with a complete and perfect knowledge of us, He still loves us. God loves us enough to die for the salvation of our souls.
In the second segment of our psalm, verses 7-12, we learn that there is no place on earth, no place actually in all of the universe, that we can go to where God isn’t there. God is everywhere. He is there if we climb to the top of Mt. Everest. He is there if we go to the lowest part of the ocean or the deepest cave. Even if we hop on some space craft and fly to the vast distances of the universe, God is still there, and He knows exactly where we are. We may at times want to hide from God, but we cannot (Jeremiah 23:24). God is everywhere. He is there with all of His mercy, His grace, His love, His justice, and His holiness.
God will also never send us into any type of situation alone. He always goes before His children. God goes before us, He stands beside us and behind us, providing protection and comfort. God is also not bound by time as we know it and are bound by it. That court date you have next week, that surgery you face and are scared of - God is already there. That future you face without your parents or without your spouse - He is there. Nothing takes God by surprise, and He will not send you there alone. God knows what we are facing, and will respond to our needs.
The third segment of this psalm describes how God was involved in the creation of each of us (vs. 13-18). Many people feel ugly and unlovable. God tells us here that He knew exactly what He was doing when He made us in our mother’s womb. He made us exactly the way He desired. Everyone is unique and special in God’s eyes. Every person who has ever lived has their own distinct fingerprint, voice pattern, retinal eye pattern, and DNA. No one has ever, or will ever, be exactly like you. Yet God knows each of us separately, and loves us personally. He made us the way we are, and loves us that way. God cares so much about us that He even knows the number of our hair (Matthew 10:30). He thinks about us more times than the number of grains of sand on each and every shoreline, and that’s a lot!
If we feel that we are lost and abandoned by Him, we can rest assured that is not the case. There is no where we can ever go where God isn’t there. When our life bottoms out, the health fails, the bank account is empty, when our friends and family flees, who is left? God is there, and He always will be. No matter where we go, God is there for us. Nothing, and no one, can keep us from Him! (Romans 8:35-39).
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