Who knows you best of all? We might answer with our spouse, if we have one. Or perhaps our parents, or siblings, or maybe a very close friend. However, even our closest of relatives or friends don’t know everything about us. Many times we don’t want someone knowing all of our secrets. Most of us have at least one hidden secret that no one but ourselves know, often more than one! Some people try to even become a whole different person with others, as they try to hide their true self from everyone, sometimes even actually running away from others to keep themselves a secret. There is One, though, that we can never hide anything from, nor can we ever get away from. Let’s see what God’s Word has to tell us.
Our psalm this week is Psalm 139, which was written by King David. In this psalm we learn in great detail one of the Lord God’s characteristics and attributes, and that is His omniscience. As mentioned above, we might feel we know everything about our spouse, our child, our best friend, yet we can’t possibly know everything. Yet as David details here in Psalm 139, God knows everything about us.
When you’re not with someone, do you know whether they are sitting down or standing up? Do you know exactly what they are doing at any given moment? No, we don’t. Without being physically there, we can’t know. But the Lord God does. He knows exactly what we’re doing at every moment in our life (vs. 2-3). We might find it hard to keep track of just the few people in our immediate family, but God is keeping track of everyone in the world with no difficulty. He knows when we’re sitting, standing or walking somewhere, and exactly what we’re up to. Sometimes parents and children joke about Mom having eyes in the back of her head, as they seemingly always know what their children are doing. God doesn’t need an “extra pair of eyes”, as He knows everything we do.
How about what we’re thinking? Once in a while there are people who are so close to each other that they can often tell what the other is thinking. As close as they may seem, they don’t know every single thought. Yet again, the Lord God knows every single one of our thoughts, morning, noon and night (vs. 3-6). Nothing about us is hidden from God.
For some people, the knowledge that God knows exactly what they are doing and thinking at every moment, is quite distressing. They don’t want anyone, including God, to know all about them, and so they think they can run away and hide. As David continues in describing God’s omniscience, he tells us that there is nowhere in the whole universe that we can go to in order to hide or escape from Him (vs. 7-12). From the highest heavens to the deepest parts of the oceans, God is there. No matter how dark it gets, God can still see us.
For people who want to hide from God, this isn’t news they want to hear. No one can hide from God. However, how about for the believer? This should be news that warms and comforts our heart. No matter where we are, God is there with us. We may be literally lost, we may find ourselves in some dangerous neighborhood, or we may be facing down an enemy, someone who wants to hurt us, but we can be encouraged that God is right there with us. God knows what we’re doing, as well. No matter how difficult the task is before us, God is there with us. He knows our discouraged thoughts, our angry thoughts, and our happy ones, as well.
As we continue in our Scripture, the Bible tells us that God even knew all of us before we were born, while we were still in our mother’s womb (vs. 13-16). God’s Word says that He made us and formed us inside our mother. In the Lord God’s eyes, during those nine months, the baby is already a human being, not a lump of tissue that can be ripped out and thrown away. God watches over the development of the child while yet inside the mother, and even at this point, the child is recorded in His book.
God already knows everything about us, even to the number of hairs on our head (Matthew 10:30), and He still accepts and loves us. As both Romans 8:35-39 and Jeremiah 23:24 state, no matter what we do or where we go, we can never be away from God’s presence. Let us rejoice in the fact that no matter where we are or what we are doing, God is with us.
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