“O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.” (Psalm 139:1-6)

God Knows Me

From David’s perspective, the omniscience of God was a blessing without measure. The all-knowing eye of the Lord peering deep into a person’s life can be troubling, but this will not be the case when a man’s life is in harmony with the will of the Father. David knew how extensive the knowledge of God was in his life. David knew his every action was seen and noted by the Lord. Whether he was sitting down or standing up, the Lord knew. God’s knowledge revealed David’s thoughts wherever he was found. God was there if David took a trip to a far-off place. In fact, God knew everything David did, thought, wanted, and where he was going.

Knowing God’s omniscience is so clear that all in life is exposed can be terrifying or wonderful. David welcomed the knowledge of God in His life. He was not sinless, but he was perfecting the word of God in his life. His desire was for God to examine him and search his life. The intent of David’s heart was to glorify God. This oversight from the Lord was a blanket of protection against the wiles of the devil. David could not live without the encompassing knowledge of God in his life to feel the presence of the Lord to guide him.

It has been said that character is what a person does when no one is looking, but the problem is that God is always looking. He knows the thoughts and intents of the heart in CinemaScope. God created man as an eternal creature, and the Lord cannot separate His eternal being from the true nature of man. The limitations of flesh prohibit a man from knowing the other man’s thoughts and intents because he can only know on a carnal level. God knows the heart because man is first an eternal creature. All things that a person does, says and thinks are known by God. It may seem hard to understand, but the Lord does not need a GPS tracker to know where a man is. He sees and knows where everyone is on the face of the planet.

One of the most amazing and wonderful things about the knowledge of God is that while David was astonished by the expanse of God’s knowledge, consider that the Lord knows this about everyone on the planet. The knowledge of God can know and see the lives of more than eight billion souls – at once. He sees and knows what has transpired in the past, and He knows a person in the present. Of the billions of souls that have walked the earth since Adam and Eve, the knowledge of God has retained every facet of a person’s life from the moment they are conceived in the womb to the day they die and where they reside in eternity. The omniscience of God is so high that no man can attain an inkling of the germ of thought that can define it.

David’s thought about the power of God was too wonderful for him and so great a task to try and understand he was almost speechless. How can one grasp the full meaning of the knowledge of God? There is nothing to measure it by. Nothing man has said or done can begin to piece together the immensity of God’s power of knowledge. And yet, God knows. He sees, hears, watches, and judges all that man does. Life is not an open book for the Lord; it’s just open. Think about how much He knows and sees in your life. David welcomed the examination because he believed God would be pleased. Can we say the same about our lives? God sees and knows all. Think about that for a while.