(Nuggets from Psalm 139:1)
It took PERFECT SUBMISSION and OBEDIENCE for the Psalmist to acknowledge that God has searched and known him.
As he sets his gaze on the LORD, David realizes he wasn’t scrambling to try to get God’s attention, but rather God’s gaze was already set on him. Our God is never ambivalent, uninterested, or engrossed in something else. He’s on a perpetual and never-ending search and rescue mission, seeking us out even when we’re unaware that we’re lost!
The very word for “search” in this context is tied to DIGGING and EXCAVATING. It’s not a shallow or quick uncovering but a thorough one that goes down to the deepest recesses of our lives. God is the great EXCAVATOR and DIGGER and He's intentionally after something real in us even when we’re unaware of what is underneath the surface of our actions and intentions.
The reason God knows you is because He searches you. There are no boundaries to the knowledge of God. God’s knowledge is LIMITLESS. The psalmist worships the God who knows all things; His knowledge is absolute, including even human thoughts, not limited to external “see-able” behavior. 1 John 3:20 states that God “GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS.” He is the King of the universe who SEES and KNOWS all things. As you lifted your head from your pillow this morning, His eye was upon you. As you go about your day, He sees every step, motive, and attitude. Across planet Earth, there is no crack or crevice or person unknown or unseen.
Today's scripture points us back to the reality that God is truly the omniscient God (He knows everything)!
God knows you. Let that sink in. He knows you; not only does God know all things generally, but He also knows all His creation personally. Often we can keep truths at a distance through broad generalizations but never consider how these great truths affect us practically. One might say, “God loves the world,” but have a much harder time saying, “God loves me.”
Have you ever wondered if God sees and knows you individually? Does He care about you? This psalm resoundingly tells us, “Yes! God knows you.”
God's omniscience is accompanied by great compassion and mercy. We see this compassion primarily in His Son Jesus, who came to earth to rescue and redeem a lost world for Himself.
It was precisely because He was acquainted with all our ways and knew how bad off we really were that He left heaven, took on flesh, and accepted to die in our place.
HAVE YOU SUBMITTED TO GOD AND SURRENDERED YOUR ALL TO HIM TO SEARCH YOU AND KNOW YOU INSIDE OUT?
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 142 OF 365 (2026)
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