Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up;
thou discernest my thoughts from afar.
Today we look at verse 2 of Psalm 139.
Tuesday’s images are from TFG in the 1990s
Yesterday’s thoughts about God knowing us intimately continue. Now we learn that God knows our thoughts. Jesus said “what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.” (Matthew 15:18,19)
What we do begins in our thoughts, for these shape us. God knows them ‘from afar’ which might mean God is a long way away and still knows them but might also mean that God knows our thoughts even before we do, that as they begin to germinate He knows what they will become.
James amplifies this when he writes: each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death. (James 1:14,15)
What thoughts are budding in you at the moment? Is there an irritation towards someone? What needs to be ‘nipped in the bud’?
God knows those little weeds that are beginning to sprout even before you do. Ask Him to reveal things that need to be rooted out.
Advent 2021 