Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
David refuses the hiding places where men cloak themselves in lies. He fixes on a truth that strips all pretense bare: nothing escapes God's sight, not because He watches from afar, but because He shaped us bone by bone in darkness and cannot be ignorant of what He has made.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:1-24
David appeals to God for a thorough search because he knows himself innocent of the charges against him; he will submit to any test, by fire and by water, for the innermost thoughts of his mind to be read and known. We must pray as honestly as he did, knowing that salvation lies not in hiding our sin but in plain discovery of it and effectual severance from it.
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God's omniscience, which might justly have watched over us to do us hurt, has instead been employed for our good; His counsels concerning us are precious in their depth and dear to us, yet so numerous we cannot count them. Every morning when we awake, we remain under His eye and care, safe and easy under His protection.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:17-24