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God Knows Me: Part 2



Where could I go to get away from your spirit?  Where could I go to escape your presence?  If I went up to heaven, you would be there.  If I went down to the grave, you would be there too!
Psalm 139:7-8 (CEB)

As we move closer to the end of this Lenten season, I continue to marvel at the innumerable things that I can praise God for!  My main focus, during Lent, is obviously on Jesus and that is cause for constant praise.  However, these two verses in Psalm 139 really are something to praise God for today as well.

Earlier and later in the psalm, David is praising God for the fact that he intimately knows each an every one of us.  In these two verses, David is reminding us that there is no where we can possibly go where God cannot find us!  No matter where I go in life, no matter what I do, God is still there right beside me.  I can go to the furthest location away from heaven and earth and God would still be there with me!

God knows me and he knows you!  He promises throughout scripture that he will never leave us nor forsake us.  This is good news!  We cannot be too bad for God to not want us or for God to desert us!  

Praise God today for this joyous truth and for the knowledge that we never have to experience the abandonment of God like Jesus experienced on the cross at his death.  Because of Jesus, we can confidently and boldly proclaim the answer to David's rhetorical question in verse 7, "Where could I go to get away from your spirit?"  That answer is and emphatic, "NO WHERE!"
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