This is a thrilling Psalm. Its message can be summed up in this way: 'There is a great and wonderful God, higher and more powerful than all. But I know him personally and he knows me.' How well does he know me? Verse 1 says he knows my heart and my mind. He understands what makes me do the things I do. Verse 2 says he knows every area of my physical life and he knows my thoughts. He sees my action (v.3). He understands what I am trying to say (v. 4). He knows what I say when sometimes I shouldn't be saying it. Verse 5 says he knows my whole life, past, future and present. What is the Psalmist's reaction to all this? Does all that make him afraid of God? Never. The wonderful thought is that God still loves us even when he knows all about us. God is not a policeman, he is a loving father. How near is this God to us? We cannot be separated from him by height or depth. No distance can come between us. No darkness can hide us from him. Yet there is nothing to be afraid of in thinking of this. It simply means that no-one can come between us. No matter where we may travel or live, we will always be just as near to God and he will be just as near to us. Is there nothing that can separate us from the love of God? No, nothing. Remember Paul's great words at the end of Romans chapter 8. But there is something that can break our fellowship with him. It is sin in our lives. When we do the things that displease him, our fellowship is clouded and broken. But when we confess our sins he forgives us and restores us to his fellowship again. Isn't he a wonderful God? He is our God, and he will be faithful to us until death and even beyond. Let's be thankful to him, our great God and our loving Father, for what he is and what he does for us every day.
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