“YOU HAVE SEARCHED ME!”

 Psalm 139:1-6                    (ESV)

Search Me, O GOD, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

    “[1] O LORD, “YOU HAVE SEARCHED ME” and known me! 

    [2] YOU know when I sit down and when I rise up;

        YOU discern my thoughts from afar. 

    [3] YOU search out my path and my lying down

        and are acquainted with all my ways. 

    [4] EVEN BEFORE A WORD IS ON MY TONGUE,

        behold, O LORD, YOU KNOW IT ALTOGETHER.

    [5] YOU hem me in, behind and before,

        and WAY YOUR HAND upon me. 

    [6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

        it is high; I cannot attain it.”

King David was imperfect, but he was “a man after GOD’S OWN HEART” (1 Samuel 13:14)!!  When writing this Psalm, David writes “O LORD, “YOU HAVE SEARCHED ME” and known me”!  Yet near the end of this Psalm he  would write “Search me, O GOD, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts”! WHY would a person begin a Psalm with a statement showing that GOD ALMIGHTY had ALREADY been where HE was needed, LONG BEFORE HIS child actually recognized the need of HIM???

King David began his life as a shepherd, quietly spending an inordinate amount of time away from the busyness of “this world”.  As he matured he may have “gotten so busy” that he elected to NOT HEAR from his CREATOR, the RULER OF THE UNIVERSE!  

GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN and FOREVER WILL BE!!!  Whether I “take time” to acknowledge HIM or not, HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME!  I am NOT a man began my life walking closely with the ONE WHO CREATED me, but HE was ALWAYS. been there for me!  HE just had to SLOW ME DOWN and OPEN MY EYES to SEE HIM!!

GOD has HIS WAYS!  HE has the ability to operate FAR more quickly than humanity has the ability to comprehend.  And from experience, HE ALSO has the ability to SLOW THINGS DOWN (Psalms 46:10)!!!  “YOU HAVE SEARCHED ME” doesn’t indicate that we have ANYTHING to do with the SEARCHING!  GOD might be CREATING HIS MASTERPIECE……..and HE just needs us to BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD???