Every Christian can Serve God with Confidence by Observing What God Knows and Where God Is.
AS I studied this Psalm and started trying to put into words what it meant to me while hoping my interpretation would help someone else I noticed a couple of words that made me want to take a run around the house and this was only verse 1. Let’s us take a look and see what jewels of hope we can find:
Oh Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Ps 139:1
The first thing I notice is God searched us this was not a task that He took lightly and delegated to an angel or some other heavenly being but took it upon Himself. Normally speaking if I can delegate I do, unless it is so important that I have to see for myself and then it becomes personal. We are important enough to have the God of Heaven looking for us. As if that wasn’t good enough what type of looking did God do? He “searched” the meaning here is “pierced through”. It is like we say in today’s terms I see right through you well God actually does see down to the truth of who we are and even when He gets there it doesn’t stop as searched in this context is like searching for treasure. Get this point He can see or pierce through our hearts to the basis of who we are and does this as if searching for treasure. He loves us beyond what we can comprehend.
Below are the incomplete notes to the sermon on Psalm 139. Sorry they are incomplete but normally I try to jot a few things down and let God lead from there. Hope these few words help you with embracing a closer walk with God.
God Bless You All,
Brett
Psalm 139
Every Christian Can Serve God with Confidence by Observing What God Knows & Where God Is
1) Gods Omniscience: The quality of knowing all things. Unbounded and infinite
i) God Knows Me: Ps 139:1-3
(1) V:1 Searched literally means Pierced Through:
(a) Sometimes we speak of seeing right through someone but God is the only one that can really see through us. Into our being as a person.
(b) When I got saved God pierced my heart and peered into my soul to the very core of who I am and He loved me anyway.
(2) V:1 Searched carries with it the idea of searching for treasure
(a) God was looking for what He could claim as His treasure he cared enough to acknowledge, accept, and adopt me into His family
(3) V:3 Compass-est My Ways
(a) Compass:
(i) To stretch around, encircle, grasp, embrace
(ii) To enclose on all sides
(b) “EST” Not only does He compass us but notice the “est” as it transforms compass to the
(i) Superlative
1. of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme
ii) V:2 My Thoughts Go with me for a minute not far back but just this morning have you had a thought that you feel God would not appreciate? Maybe someone at a store or someone that didn’t smell, look, or act like you and you didn’t take an opportunity God gave you to witness.
(1) Just remember God knew your thoughts!!!
iii) V:4 My Tongue OH BOY this is not an easy one for anyone
• God’s desire is not to be on a shelf like an inanimate object to worship.
• God’s desire is a Living, Loving relationship with each of us. (A Personal relationship)
(i) Have you searched for someone to show God’s love to and compassest them lately as God did for you?
2) Gods Omnipresence: Present in every place. Unbounded
a) God Is With Me: Ps 139:7-10
i) V:8-9 Distance
(1) No matter where you go God will be with you to help and guide
(2) How many people have wanted to witness at work or when getting gas etc. yet were scared or fearful? God was there.
(3) Look at Verse 9 I can’t go from the East (morning) to the west (uttermost parts of the sea). To loose God’s presence He is there. Fear is Satan’s way of you not witnessing
ii) V:10 Guidance
(1) To Lead or Guide
(2) To Hold or grasp
(a) He rides with us and is there when we arrive
(b) He not only leads us but Holds us in His grasp
(i) He knows me as I am and still loves and adopts me how much more should I love others that He has called me to?
3) God’s Omnipotence: Unbounded Power
i) God’s power is always available in times of need.
To sum it all up:
God knows us
God is with us
God helps us
God loves you. You’re rebellious, you cheat, you commit immorality, you’re selfish, you sin, but God loves you with an intensity beyond anything I could describe to you. He loves you and He loves you so much that He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ to die on a cross and the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail. Billy Graham
In light of His love for us:
God wants us to know others
God wants us to be with others
God wants us to help others
Love and God’s Will
Our love of God must not be gauged by the passing of feelings we experience that are not controlled by the will, but rather, we must judge them by the ending quality of the will itself. For loving God means that we join our will to God’s will. It means that our will consents to whatever the will of God commands. It means that we have only one reason for wishing anything, and the reason is that we know that God wills it…. Anonymous