Fully Known
Psalm 139:1 reads, "You have searched me, Lord, and you know me." The whole psalm lays out the ways in which God knows and has known the author, stating that God "knit me together in my mother's womb (13). "
God knew you before the world did. Before you were given a name, before people tried to decide what you would be, or what you could do, God knew you. He watched you grow until birth, and when you were born could tell you apart by the sound of your cooing in the crib. He counted the hairs on your head and the cracks on your palms. The number changes; He knows that too. But more importantly, He knows you. Your heart. Every joy, every ache, the tears you've cried, the hope you've felt, He knows it all.
Lately I have been dwelling on this passage. And I've just been so humbled by how much He knows us and yet loves us. How perfectly He understands our hearts, and how desperately He longs for us to know Him. He knows our struggles- addiction, heartbreak…
God knew you before the world did. Before you were given a name, before people tried to decide what you would be, or what you could do, God knew you. He watched you grow until birth, and when you were born could tell you apart by the sound of your cooing in the crib. He counted the hairs on your head and the cracks on your palms. The number changes; He knows that too. But more importantly, He knows you. Your heart. Every joy, every ache, the tears you've cried, the hope you've felt, He knows it all.
Lately I have been dwelling on this passage. And I've just been so humbled by how much He knows us and yet loves us. How perfectly He understands our hearts, and how desperately He longs for us to know Him. He knows our struggles- addiction, heartbreak…
