A Little Bit about Searching and Knowing....

We have spent the week talking about Psalm 139 and the implications this psalm could have on our life if we apply the principles.  It is a lot to consider.  It takes time to digest what you read in the Bible.  It takes time to digest, comprehend and decide.  Decide to embrace the principles to one’s life.  Decide to change – yes, that’s the word.  Change.  I also have a better word (or at least, a favorite word of mine).  Transform!  We must make the decision to transform.  It is an unspoken expectation that if one decides to apply the principles of the Bible to one’s life a transformation can occur.  I use the word “can” because there are minute choices that have to made all through the process.  The gift of “free will” makes it necessary to continue to make choices all along the journey, because at any time you can choose to walk off the path.

As I complete my survey of Psalm 139 I end with the last two verses:

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24

As King David completes his time honoring God he has said many things.  We have only touched on a few of them this week.  There is something in the last two verses that I don’t want to miss – the choice David made to submit himself to God.  David asks God to search him and know him.  It is one thing to search for something.  Once you have found it the job is done.  It’s another thing to search for it, find it and then know what has been found.  In this passage the word know is to be understood as something deeper than recognition.  That is to say, I can know I have found a button but another thing to know what item of clothing that button came from and where it should be placed.  David is asking God to search him out, find the things within him and know what they are.

This request of God involves a huge decision – the decision to begin to change the way you live, the way you think.  When you make such request and submit to God’s way, the odds are you will come out changed.  Different.  Transformed.

I have one question – only one – are you ready to make this choice and ask God to search you and know you?  I would love to hear your answers!!

Have a great day and a wonderful evening!  See you tomorrow.