How much more terrifying that the one who knows everything about us is perfectly holy, relentlessly just, and invincibly powerful? There should be nothing more devastating to us than that the living God knows every inch of the depths of our sin - our offensive, pervasive preferring of anything to him.īut we do not have to be terrified or devastated. How could anyone love us if they knew all of that about us? Nothing covered. That kind of knowledge is terrifying for a broken, sinful person like you or me. He knows everything you have done, are doing, and will do (Psalm 139:3), and every word you say, even before it leaves your mouth (Psalm 139:4). He evens knows what you think - every single thought that crosses your mind (Psalm 139:2). God knows where you are every minute of every day (Psalm 139:2). David writes, “O Lord, you have searched me and known me!” (Psalm 139:1). You have never been known and you never will be known like God knows you. After all, we’re not even happy with ourselves - many of us may even hate ourselves - so why should we expect others to respond differently? To be known is to open ourselves up to the most intense scrutiny, rejection, and judgment. This kind of disclosure, though, is incredibly dangerous, especially as sinful people. It is the universal craving of men and women everywhere that someone - not just anyone, but still someone - would be able to look past the masks, past the protective layers of superficiality, past the feigned perfection, and really, truly see us, see * me* for who I really am. The desire to be known - fully, thoroughly, completely known - is woven deeply into the human heart. Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! (Psalm 139:1–3, 23–24). You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up you discern my thoughts from afar.
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