Psalms 139:7-10 (ESV)
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
In the first six verses of this psalm, King David, the writer has stated that he is in awe of God’s intricate knowledge of him. Later in the song he will write:
Psalms 139:17-18 (ESV)
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
The point being that David is so struck by God’s knowledge of him he responds by asking where he can flea from God’s presence. So, David’s response to God’s omniscience of him, is to try to run from God’s omnipresence. If we really believed that God knew everything about us, we would probably do the same thing. We would want to hide. But, we can’t. Not only does God know everything about us, He is continually present with us. God knows us intimately, but yet He wants to be with us continually. What other time does mankind experience that truth. If people really knew us the way we are, with all the evil in our hearts, with all the selfishness in our being, would they really want to be around us? We might hope our family would do that, but that is less likely than we can imagine. God, knowing us the way we truly are, deep into our inward being, still wants to and is, continuing to abide by us. That is truly unconditional love. We do not have to fear that when we mess up in life that God will abandon us. He does not! We can rejoice that when we fail (and we all fail miserably), God will abide with us forever. Even though God is omniscient toward us, He is also omnipresent to support us.
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