Friday May 12th
Psalm 139:6
‘Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.’
Well I’ve looked at this psalm this week in a mixed order! It hadn’t even been my intention to look at this psalm, but this is how it has worked out as I have wrote my thoughts down for this week, and this verse is my conclusion ‘such knowledge is too wonderful for me.’
One thing is sure, God knows everything about us, we are reminded of this in this Psalm, 139, but we see it also in what God said to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you’, but there is one thing that is as equally sure, we don’t know everything about him, but this is the wonder, we can know him, and not just as the One who is the great Creator whose works are wonderful, but as our loving, caring heavenly Father.
And although we can get to KNOW ABOUT God, through his works, the wonder of creation, and through his word, we get to KNOW HIM through his son, the Lord Jesus Christ, for Jesus said ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’
As I conclude the devotions for this week, I want to ask all who either read or listen to the devotions ‘Do you know GOD?’ For now, it’s not important to be too concerned as to how much you know about him, but rather that you come to know him as your heavenly Father, by coming to him by faith through the Lord Jesus Christ. It is once we have done this, that is come to know God personally that we can seek to know more about him.
In his letter to the Church at Philippi, we see thatPaul had come to know God as his heavenly Father, and the Lord Jesus as his Saviour and yet he would confess he didn’t know all that could be known, none of us can, we are always learning and discovering, but we can make the same prayer or have the same desire that Paul had where he says in Philippians 3:10 ‘That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming LIKE Him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.’
May we all GET To know HIM, but also have the desire to get to know him more deeply, more intimately and more obediently and have the desire to know more about him. After all, it is he who has formed us and given us life.