The Lord Who Knows Your Situation Well
Today's Bible Verse
You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, Lord.
(Psalm 139: 04, New Living Translation)
We would remember moments when we chose not to share any of our thoughts with anyone. We would have muted ourselves and would have decided to go through the situation alone. We prefer not to express what we feel about something. We did not want others to know what was going through. And especially, we would have been vigilant not to voice anything about what we preferred doing next. For some of us, our prayer, those precious moments of conversations with God, would have gone silent and vacant; maybe not knowing what to say and how to say that.
However, at the end of such difficult, muted and lonely moments in life, we would have realised that there was someone who was carefully noting down every single part of our thoughts, and things were answered according to the right way and at the right time. You had never expressed your struggles and yearnings in words. You never spoke a word about what you wished to do. But you would have been amazed at the way how things turned out to be real and complete in front of your own eyes. Let me remind you that this is probably the same feeling of amazement that the king of Israel and God's servant David felt, and that he wrote these words in Psalm 139, "You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord" (4). The path that David travelled was just the same as we had read above about our lives. The difficulties and disappointments that he overcame with God's help were also of the same nature. And reading through the entire Psalm 139, we realise what a road he had travelled and what great realisations David has had in his lifetime. And, today this verse we are meditating on reminds us of two important truths that we as believers of the living Lord have to keep in our minds.
The Lord knows what is in our hearts. Whether we voice them or hide them, whether we express them by our feelings or hide by covering them, whether it is happiness and sorrow, gain or loss, goodness or evil, the Lord knows exactly what is in the depths of our hearts. We cannot hide anything from the Lord. Reminding the verse again, we see that David says, "...even before I say it" (Psalm 139:4). I was just realising as I meditated on this verse that this does not only mean the spoken words but even the unspoken ones. Even before we speak to ourselves (remember our own voice speaking to ourselves?), the Lord knows, first of all, that we are going to say something, and second the Lord knows what we are going to say. Therefore, as children of the loving Lord our God, let us realise that the Lord knows exactly what is there in our hearts. And this realisation leads to us to the next important part of our life of faith.
Submit yourselves with open hearts. Now that we know that we cannot hide anything from God and He is eager to always know what is there in our hearts, let us submit ourselves to His will. That's exactly what David did. If we could read through Psalm 139, we realise, David keeps listing one after the other the wonders of the Lord, how caring and concerned the Lord is about us, and at the end of such great realisations he submits himself and prays, in verses 23 and 24, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life." This is exactly the prayer that we are called to pray and the submission we are to make on realising that the Lord knows every single thought in the deepest corners of our hearts. Let us submit ourselves and ask God to be there in our hearts right at the birth of all our thoughts so that our thoughts will be according to His will.
Let us realise that our Lord our God knows our situations well, He knows every thought that is there within us, He understands what we feel and let us submit ourselves in front of His throne of grace and seek Him in faith.
May the blessings of God the Father, the love and grace of Christ Jesus the Son, and the fellowship and guidance of the Holy Spirit, be with us and help us, as we continue to be determined not to defile ourselves and serve the Lord faithfully.
May God bless you.
Yours in Christ,
"He Knows My Name"
by Maranatha Singers
