God Knows Us, He Sees Us, He Empowers Us
GOD KNOWS, HE SEES, HE EMPOWERS
Where does a man go when he has been anointed by God’s own prophet Samuel to become the King of Israel after her first King, Saul? Where does he go even though he, himself, has delivered Saul from the great giant, Goliath? Where does he go when he, himself, has sung God’s soothing Psalms to quiet Saul’s tortured and disobedient spirit? Where does he go when he has performed Saul’s disgusting quest and earned the hand of the king’s daughter? Where does he go when in all matters he stands in the eyes of God and in the eyes of the people as a worthy successor to the king? Where does he go when he is the very best friend of the present king’s heir apparent? Where does he go after the king tries to pin him to the wall with a spear? Well, in this case, David labeled as “a man after God’s own heart,” flees into the wilderness. Often he finds himself escaping Saul “by the skin of his teeth,”as we might say. And yet he also finds himself choosing to spare Saul’s life, even when the king wanders into circumstances which would seem to give David the opportunity to avenge himself upon Saul. David refuses to harm God’s anointed king, even after these long years of fleeing so many attempts by Saul to catch and assassinate him. Finally the king, completely depraved, is slain by the ungodly Philistines, along with his sons, including David’s best friend, Jonathan.
Surely, then, the wording of David’s Psalm 139 comes as no surprise when this mighty King and gifted poet, David, examines the role of Almighty God in rescuing himself, and the Kingdom of Israel, itself. In fact David serves as an excellent example of God’s involvement in each of our lives. We can say, based upon David’s spirit-inspired comments in Psalm 139, God sees us. God knows us. He empowers us.
GOD KNOWS US
How good it is that our incredible, our omnipotent, our omniscient, our omnipresent God, Creator of the Universe; takes time, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, and day-by day to know us. In fact He knows us much better than we know ourselves. He opens up paths before us according to His perfect knowledge. His love gives us the choice to follow Him. God knows our every need. He knows His provision for us in the midst of our greatest need. So He came to this world as Jesus to live among us, to show us the way to follow His path for our redemption. In fact, He actually gave Himself-in-Jesus upon the cross to cover the penalty for our sin and disobedience. Then He gave us redemption and deliverance when He arose victorious on the Cross. Praise God. He knows us.
GOD SEES US
Not only does God know us, He sees us. He walks so close beside us, He sees even our smallest, our most personal joys—He stands behind every bit of joy. He also walks right beside us on the darkest days and becomes the light which gives us hope just when we need it the most. Wherever we go He never leaves our side. He knows our thoughts, our feelings, our hopes, our dreams, our fears, our doubts, and our despair. His Spirit indwells our hearts deepening all that is right, but also strengthening, cleansing, and perfecting us as He deals with all that is wrong within us. He sees us always. He proves to us that He is always the same; yesterday, today and forever. Praise God. He sees us.
GOD EMPOWERS US
From before we were born, throughout all our days on this earth, and even as we
are delivered into His eternal Presence, God empowers us to complete the course He sets before us. We are so precious in His sight. He is intricately involved as we are formed in our mother’s womb, molding and shaping every cell within us to become perfect in His sight. Each glorious day He writes into the book of our lives, a beautiful testimony to His Love, His Mercy and His Grace. Surely, the more we understand the depths and the goodness of His touch upon our lives, the more we have cause to praise Him forever. No wonder His thoughts become precious in our sight. No wonder the blessings He bestows on us overwhelms us like the grains of sand on the sea shore. No wonder we grow to reject all wickedness and blasphemy in His sight. Praise God. He empowers us.
When we experience the truth of David’s Psalm 139, we find ourselves, like him, overwhelmed with praise and gladness as we consider God’s eternal greatness and His overwhelming, personal love expressed inside of us and all around us.
HE MOST TRULY KNOWS AND LOVES ME
I can but join David as I praise Him,
I can but raise my heart and sing
filled with joy and conviction
as I raise my voice before His glory
and His knowledge and His power—
for my God most truly, faithfully,
He most truly knows and loves me.
Just like the shepherd David found Him
in the valley as He guarded his
father’s sheep, and as he lay
by night under those stars who joyfully
praised Him, and as David found Him
ever faithful even as he faced
a lion attacking his helpless sheep.
Even as David found himself in the king’s throne
room playing his own harp, the
Spirit used his sweet psalms to soothe
Saul, troubled by his own disobedience—
then he stood before Goliath
with nothing but a sling, five stones,
and his trust in the Lord, Israel’s great God.
Even as He sat accused on Israel’s throne
by God’s angry prophet caught
up in adultery and murder,
his heart broken by his guilt, sorely punished,
then redeemed and cleansed, redeemed by God’s pure
love and grace, exemplified
in a cleansing, dutiful sacrifice.
All throughout His life in the depth of valleys
filled with death’s fearful darkness and
on the mountaintops when God’s own light
so filled his heart with pure joy and at all
those times which seemed somehow in between
both the best and worst of all his
days, God always loving him, proved faithful,
I can but join David as I praise Him,
I can but raise my heart and sing
filled with joy and conviction
as I raise my voice before His glory
and His knowledge and His power—
for my God most truly, faithfully
He most truly knows and loves me.
Praise God! He loves me!!!
