You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
God observes the whole man: my sitting low in self-denial, my rising in pride, every casual motion and necessary movement. My thoughts, invisible and still forming, are already known to Him before they take shape in me; He comprehends their nature, source, drift, and end with perfect clarity. One glance from His piercing eye sums up all the meanings of my soul.
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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
When I acknowledge that God has searched me and known me, I am not merely assenting to doctrine, I am speaking to Him, and such sincerity before His face cuts deeper than any sermon or dispute. The business is not that He knows all things universally, but that He knows me; my soul, my sin, my good, belonging to Him alone.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:1-6