Searched and Known

                                                                 Psalm 139:1
This week in the A Confident Heart online Bible study we have the verse in Psalms 139 and verse 1 to unpack if we want to.  This verse says, "O Lord, you have searched me and known me."

    I want to examine this searching and being known that is brought out to me in this verse.
The searching is being done by The Lord and he has searched me according to this verse. Searched is past tense so it has already been done and I can not help but wonder what he has found out about me? I mean really this is " The Lord !" who has searched me. As much as I have made this out to be a dreaded thing that he has searched me and found out something , the truth is I take comfort in this . Yes I really do! This scripture says he not only has searched me but that he knows me and this is a blessing to me because if I read further in this very chapter it tells me more about who it is that has searched me and known me.
                                        Psalm 139: 2 - 6 goes on to tell me this :
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. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, you know it altogether . You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful  for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.
    So I can take heart that this Lord God who has searched me cares deeply as he knows when I sit and rise and even understands my thoughts from far away . Look I don't mind telling you I  don't even always understand my own thoughts, and that God does and that he has searched this all out and pays attention . Wow! And then he says He comprehends my path ?  So he grasps and understands my path and so many times I cannot figure why I do intuitively the things I do. And seriously, not many would care enough to be acquainted with all my ways! But this says God does. He knows a word before it is even on my tongue, so even before I know what will be in my own thoughts He knows. Again I say wow! And he not only knows it knows it altogether .
  It says he has hedged me in behind and before and has laid his hand on me. Hedged : cover, guard,cushion,protect , safe guard, encircle, surround . And the fact that, he ~ God, has laid his hand on me , wow, I am in awe! I don't know about you but I know for me I feel a sense of security and of being greatly loved by my God that he the creator of the universe would stoop to his creation and be so involved.
   Lord God,
 Thank you that you are so deeply involved in my life. You know all about me and yet , you still love me and stick by me. You understand me and still cover me, protect me and surround me with your great  and unfailing love. I , too, like the Psalmist say : " Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it." I can, however, say, Thank you for all you are and have for me . In Jesus I stand and pray . Amen