The God Who Knows

The God Who Knows


1 O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. 13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:1 & 13 NEW LIVING TRANSLATION


Until I read this piece of scripture, I always considered myself “unknown”. As in, “no one could possibly know the real me.” When I first read Psalm 139, I was sitting in a hospital room. I wanted to read to my dad, but hadn’t been a believer long enough to have had any solid perspective of what to read. My wife suggested reading from Psalms. I began reading scripture to my father and praying for him. As I read these verses, the words sounded very bizarre. I am not prone to hearing voices, but as I read the words of Psalm 139 to my dad, it was as if I could hear someone speaking the words back to me. As if to say, “This is how I feel about you.”
I was overwhelmed.

Suddenly, I had gone from unknown to known. I found out that I was not a mistake, but a purpose. No longer unwanted, but deeply desired. When people say things like, “God has a plan for your life,” I think God really does. For a starter, the plan for your life is to know God, and be known by Him. That, in itself is cause to celebrate! This magnificent, wonderful God is interested in me! In us! Out of all the planets and creation, He opted to make you and me on purpose, for a purpose. And, more than anything else, He wants us to know who we are, and where we come from and for us to come home.

My dad went home very early the next morning. As he passed on, conversely, I was being reborn and repurposed by God that night. Suddenly, I had become known.
I am still overwhelmed. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! (Psalm 139:6 NEW LIVING TRANSLATION)