"O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me." (Psalm 139:1)

-----Perhaps the most frightening attribute of God is that He knows everything about us. Everything! He has "searched (literally "penetrated") us and "known" ("understood" us. And since God is both omnipresent and omniscient, it obviously follows that nothing escapes His conscious knowledge about us. He observes our ordinary activities (v.2) and our innermost thoughts. We are transparent to Him; we cannot deceive Him in any way. He knows what we are going to think; we cannot hide anything from Him. God knows what only we know about ourselves, and those things we won't even admit to ourselves. WOW!

Furthermore, He is everywhere around each one of us (vv.7-10), wherever we are or could be. He fills all space, and there is no escape. We cannot hide from God. He is wherever we go. God's salvation is a very marvelos matter. "for when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:6-8).

God loves us in spite of what we have become. Yet, since He knows what we 'could' be, He gives us eternal life through His son so that we will realize, one day, what He knows we 'shall' be.

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