#DailyDevotion The LORD Our Father Knows Us Intimately
Psalm 139 3You created my inner being and wove me together in my mother’s womb. 14I thank You for how marvelously and wonderfully I am made. What You do is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. 15My limbs weren’t hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully woven as in an underground workshop. 16Your eyes saw me before I was formed; before a single one of my days took shape, they were all prepared and written in Your scroll. 17How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How very many they are! 18If I count them they are more than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with You.
As we peer deep inside our development starting with our DNA, our stem cells and then how they differentiate, how organs start forming and our skeleton is made our frame, we are most marvelously and wonderfully made by our Maker. He is intimately involved in our making in our mother’s womb. While some see science as a testimony against God, I clearly see it as a witness to His being, and not just to His existence but to His involvement in our lives. Despite how sin in us may deform us in some ways and even bring early death, we know, we have His promise of the resurrection and restoration of all things. The LORD can bring good out of evil for those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. Remember the man born blind.
The LORD Jesus Christ has seen us before we were even formed. He is so intimately involved with our lives that our very days are prepared and written in His scroll, accounting for all our sins and the sins of others and the good of others and ourselves, so we may do as we will and still accomplish His good will.
The LORD’s thoughts are precious to us and they are many. We can spend all our lives just meditating on His commandments. The Sermon on the Mount can overwhelm us. His suffering, death and resurrection can capture our hearts, minds and spirits and make us His own. Whether we sleep or are awake, we are still with the LORD Jesus Christ and He is still with us. We never have to be alone or lonely. He knows us.
19O God, if you would only kill the wicked — you murderous men, get away from me. 20They speak blasphemy against You, and, as Your enemies, insult You. 21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate You and be disgusted with those who attack You? 22I hate them with a perfect hatred; they have become my enemies. 23Search me, O God, and know my mind. Test me, and know my thoughts, 24and see if there’s anything in me that leads to pain, and lead me on the everlasting way.
Well that is quite a turn in this psalm. Yes, though, according to God’s alien will, He will one day kill the wicked who oppose Him and reject Him, cf. Rev. 19. Such people who will not repent, change their minds, turn to be on God’s side instead of the world’s, the devil’s and their flesh blaspheme and insult the LORD in the alien part of us that loves the LORD does want them to perish. The holiness the LORD has implanted in us should be disgusted with them even as it is disgusted with our own sins. But perhaps this is Jesus Christ speaking through the psalmist. Who else can hate with perfect hatred? Yet, because we belong to Him, there is that feeling in us as well. But Jesus has called us to love our enemies. Even He loved His enemies, namely us (Romans 5). But if they reject His love, what else is left but His wrath.
The psalmist, having expressed this, perhaps had his own heart pricked. He asks the LORD to search him, test him and if there is anything in him that is wanting to correct him and lead him to the everlasting way. We too should make this our prayer as we don’t even know our own faults.
Heavenly Father, help us to recognize how wonderfully we are made and how intimate You are with our lives. Correct us when we sin and always lead us back to the path of everlasting life, Jesus Christ, Your Son. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.