Psalm 139: 1-3
For the choir director. A psalm of David.
O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me. Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou hast understood my thought from afar. Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down, and art intimately acquainted with all my ways.
David knew God. He had such a close relationship with the Lord God that he was able to express in his music so many details of Who our God is.
I am impressed by David's openness with God. Acknowledging how God knows every detail of his personal day-by-day living kept him from sin, from anything that would put a barrier between him and God.
Only when he wasn't acutely aware of His presence did he even consider taking matters into his own hands, like when he was upset that a wealthy man would refuse to help him in return for protection of his flocks, in I Samuel 25, when he was about to attack Nabal and his wife Abigail reminded David of God's care (v. 26).
David appreciated Abigail's faith that gave her boldness to confront him, and when she became a widow he took care of her by making her his wife.
I know that God also knows me that intimately. He knows when I rest and when I am active. He knows when I am at home or away somewhere. He knows when I'm eating and when I'm napping. He knows what I'm going to think about before the thought comes into my mind! Only God can do that, because only He is God.
O my Father, thank You for Who You are! Thank You that I need not be afraid of You knowing me that deeply and thoroughly, because You are Love. I trust You to always sift my every day to strain out everything that the World, the devil and my own flesh would throw into my path, to lead me past it and guide me around it. And when I stumble, Father, You lift me up by the hand, so that I will not utterly fall.
Thank You for including me in Your great Plan of the Ages, to give me a small role in the unfolding of Your Grand Agenda. Continue to lead and guide me, Father, so that I will not wander to the right or to the left, but step every step firmly and confidently in the path You have determined I will walk.
And let me me a conduit through which Your love and grace and blessings flow to others. Let Your light shine through me into the darkness of this World. And use me to bring many others to Yourself.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
