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Meditation 1.12
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On Saturdays, we consider — not debate — a passage of Scripture. Here’s today’s passage:
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
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One more diversion
This Psalm has, on occasion, given me lots of trouble. Re: Matt. 5:28 & other scriptures that rebuke us for idle thoughts & words, (Matt 12:36).
If God knows everything I think, I’m in deep trouble, except for His grace.
He does know us - through and through and I find that so comforting and so reassuring. I don’t have to be anything or anyone other than what and who I am and He still loves me, accepts me while encouraging me lovingly and gently to go forward with Him.
As the Psalmist proclaims: Such knowledge is too wonderful!
Chas - You must have been posting while I was typing my comment. I admit I used to think like you but as you said…”except for His grace.”
His grace has become so real to me these past couple of years.
Nothing is hidden from God. This is both a blessing and a rebuke. A blessing becausw He knows my needs before I ask. A rebuke, because He knows my sins before I confess.
I was just reading a bit from a Lloyd-Jones book today and he mentioned how Peter was warned by Jesus that Peter would betray Him. Peter was sure that would not happen. Jesus knew it would and not only warned him, but told him when he recovered from it, to encourage the others. Then Jesus told Peter to pray when they were in the garden. Peter kept falling asleep. Nevertheless, in Jesus’ high priestly prayer, he prays to the Father for not only Peter, but for all of the disciples and us, that God would keep him and us from falling. He is now in heaven interceding for us. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me! But what assurance He has given us!
My favorite psalm though I enjoy a lot of others as well. Think I will go read it again. Such reassurance and such encouragement to love others as they are.
What I love about this Psalm (the whole Psalm not just the first six verses) is when it shows David to be quite human it reveals my own humanity. David is marveling at the omniscience of God it seems, until he begins understand that if God knows all he knows David’s sin before David has even thought it, as Peter L suggests. So David–like a toddler–tries to redirect the Father’s gaze, “If only you would slay the wicked . . . Do not I hate those who hate you . . . ” But David–since he is not a toddler–understands that futility and melts into the mercy of the Most High, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxcious thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
Thank you for posting this encouraging word!
My last Christmas visitor left this morning: my recently widowed sister and her two dear daughters.
We are all tired, and I didn’t make it to church after the airport and checking out of the hotel we stayed in the past few days while she led worship at a conference.
This psalm is full of love, tenderness and mercy.
I haven’t had a ‘quiet time’ all year. I don’t even have a strategy!
It’s nice to hear such loving words in the midst of so much of my own unpreparedness.
Have missed you all.