“O LORD, YOU!”

 

Psalm 139:1-2                 (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.”

David is the author of this Psalm.  He also was the man that Samuel says was “a man after GODS OWN HEART”!  David was CHOSEN by GOD ALMIGHTY through HIS prophet Samuel to be King when Saul turned away from THE LORD.  But David was FAR FROM perfect!!!

King David was home when his troops were in battle with the Ammonites, and the turmoil that ensued was something that caused him GREAT GRIEF!!  Yet he writes in this Psalm that “O LORD, YOU” have searched me and known me!” 

If GOD has a record of all of David’s life, HE must have one of my life???  On one hand, that is quite alarming!  But on the other hand, GOD REMOVES our sins “as far as the east is from the west” (Psalms 103:12)!!  HE CHOOSES to not REMEMBER our sins any longer BECAUSE OF the sacrifice that JESUS made on Calvary!!!

The account of David and Bathsheba serves as a profound lesson on the nature of sin, the importance of repentance, and the enduring mercy of GOD.  I’m so thankful that HE CHOOSES to do the same for me!!  

“O LORD, YOU” are WORTHY of ALL OF our PRAISE!!!