The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 7:9,
"Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts."
David calls out to the Lord for deliverance from his enemies. He looks to the Lord to be vindicated and his enemies to be judged. He points to something we learn about the Lord in this psalm that facilitates this: God probes our minds and hearts!
Here is a sobering thought! God probes our minds and hearts! He actively examines what we think and what we feel. He knows our inner impulses, what motivates and drives us to say and do the thing we do. He knows not just the things we do, but everything that has led us to do what we do. He knows our imaginations, he knows our daydreams, he knows exactly what we are up to when we may think no one does.
This means there is no constitutional right to privacy, not even one speck of privacy we have from the Lord. As the writer of Hebrews says, "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account." Hebrews 4:13.
David observes in another psalm, "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." Psalm 139:1-4. A few verses later in that psalm David goes on to say, "If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light 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." Verses 11-12.
I don't know about you, but this is frightfully sobering to me! To think the Lord knows me inside out, that there is nothing he does not know about me leaves me with a tremendous appreciation for God's grace toward me- something I could never expect, and yet, there it is!
There simply is no way I could ever thank the Lord enough for his kindness, mercy, grace and love he has expressed to me in the face of all he knows of me! It is beyond my capacity to conceive given what he knows of me.
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know..
"Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts."
David calls out to the Lord for deliverance from his enemies. He looks to the Lord to be vindicated and his enemies to be judged. He points to something we learn about the Lord in this psalm that facilitates this: God probes our minds and hearts!
Here is a sobering thought! God probes our minds and hearts! He actively examines what we think and what we feel. He knows our inner impulses, what motivates and drives us to say and do the thing we do. He knows not just the things we do, but everything that has led us to do what we do. He knows our imaginations, he knows our daydreams, he knows exactly what we are up to when we may think no one does.
This means there is no constitutional right to privacy, not even one speck of privacy we have from the Lord. As the writer of Hebrews says, "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account." Hebrews 4:13.
David observes in another psalm, "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." Psalm 139:1-4. A few verses later in that psalm David goes on to say, "If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light 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." Verses 11-12.
I don't know about you, but this is frightfully sobering to me! To think the Lord knows me inside out, that there is nothing he does not know about me leaves me with a tremendous appreciation for God's grace toward me- something I could never expect, and yet, there it is!
There simply is no way I could ever thank the Lord enough for his kindness, mercy, grace and love he has expressed to me in the face of all he knows of me! It is beyond my capacity to conceive given what he knows of me.
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know..
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