![]() Knowledge of God directly affects our reactions, especially in times of hardship, injustice, and pain.ĭavid’s heartfelt journey with God, through the good, bad, challenging, and unbelievable, remains alive and relatable throughout Psalm 139. Knowing God creates gratitude and praise for who He is and what He does for us. Omniscience means that God is all-knowing, His knowledge is not limited. Omnipresence means God is everywhere, simultaneously. Psalm 139 reflects David’s prayerful meditation of God’s omnipresence and omniscience, and the effect those characteristics of God have on the human heart. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Search me, God, and know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts. ![]() How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand-when I awake, I am still with you. If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them I count them my enemies. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.įor you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Indeed, the Lord "knows the secrets of the heart" (Psalm 44:21).You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. In that same passage, it was noted that Jesus knew what was happening in each person's spirit (John 2:24–25). Many people accepted Jesus' message because of the miraculous things He did (John 2:23). As a result, local religious leaders (John 2:18) questioned Him. When Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover, He cleansed the temple by forcing out corrupt businessmen (John 2:13–17). God has access to the "light" of a person's spirit: factual truth about their innermost being. In biblical terminology, "light" is associated with goodness, as well as truth and knowledge. ![]() A person's spirit is seen by God it shows everything needed to know to properly judge them (Psalm 7:11 Psalm 139:7). A person's spirit illuminates who and what they really are (Luke 6:45). God is aware of every aspect of our inner lives (1 Samuel 16:7 Hebrews 4:13). ![]() ![]() Man's spirit possesses thought, motives, intentions, feelings, and desires, all of which the Lord tests. ![]()
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