Devotion:
Read Psalm 139:1-10.
“Ohhh, you better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town. He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you're awake…” are words written in good humor to motivate the children to behave, especially prior to Christmas!
It might be easy to read this Psalm similarly as the Psalmist speaks of God’s presence with us always, but this is totally different. The Psalmist is speaking of the complete knowledge that our Maker has for us and that the One who made us is always with us, not to “check up on us”, but to be with us wherever we are and wherever we go. God’s presence is with us in the depths of our souls.
The Psalmist employs the words, “this is too glorious, too wonderful to believe!” Even in eternal life, we belong to God. Whether we are in this world or the next, God is with us! Yes! This is glorious!
The words, “compassion and grace” are not in this Psalm, but to me this gives a beautiful word picture of God’s compassion and grace in that God our Maker knows us so well, and yet still loves us and will never leave us!
In Romans 8, the Apostle Paul echoes these words, as he writes, “nothing in all of creation will be able to separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Because the Psalmist is sure of God’s presence, the Psalmist can trust completely in God’s care for the present time and for all of the future. The Psalmist asked for God to “lead along the path of everlasting life.”
Personal Worship Option:
Live with this assurance: God knows me, is with me and loves me. And the Psalmist’s concluding prayer (vs. 23-24) can be ours, too. “Search me, O God and know my heart; test my thoughts. Point out anything you find in me that makes you sad, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.” Amen.
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