God Knows You Well!
All human beings need at least one close relative, or intimate friend, who knows them well, and unto whom they may confide their deepest thoughts and heart intentions. Yet, none of that can ever supercede the total knowledge God has of each of His human creatures.
Indeed, we who are “fearfully and wonderfully made” are known by our Creator in the minutest details of our being, and of our actions which He also closely watches.
Psalm 139 begins with an affirmation of that truth, where the Psalmist was not alluding only to himself but to every fellow human: “O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways” (vv.1-3).
Many other Psalms, prophetic utterances, apostolic pronouncements, along with the teachings of Jesus Himself, point to the same truth: God knows His human creatures well, even to the extent that not one hair can fall from their head without His knowledge and consent. As the author of the epistle to the Hebrews declares, “All things are naked and open before the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do” (4:13).
As 20th century theologian, John H. Leith, puts it: “Every human life is rooted in the intention of God. God thought of us before we were and called us into being.” God knows us by name; He is aware of our every move, good and bad, and He is always attentive to the cries of anyone who honestly and humbly turns to Him. Unto those who through repentance and faith seek His forgiveness and the new life He offers, He also gives a new name, and promises an eternal abode with Him.
It is a liberating thought to realize that the creator and sustainer of the universe is not only mindful of us, but He actually knows us in the most intimate details of our daily existence, and He cares for us deeply.
He even chose to reveal Himself to us as well. He now invites us to have fellowship with Him, to depend on Him for everything, to have free and easy access into His presence, and to anticipate not meager provisions, but an abundant supply for our every need!
With such awareness, our true ambition should entail being found always faithful, and at the right places, with proper attitudes, and with a more obedient disposition to do His will, and bring the glory due unto Him through what we are becoming, and by what we perform in His Name!
George MacDonald, from Scotland, sums it up well: “I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.”
