Too Wonderful

As I traveled the entire day throughout the Catskill mountains and the Hudson River Valley, I was in awe of the beauty surrounding me.  The colors of the leaves, the streams, the waterfalls, the mountains, and even the crispness of the air, made this day breathtaking. I can understand what David meant in Psalm 139 when he said, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;” He then talks about how God’s presence is inescapable, no matter where we might flee. And not only His presence, but His thoughts toward us, individually, are countless.  If this is true, which it is, then today, my God was thinking of me in ways I cannot fathom.  Oh, how I desire for my thoughts to be thinking of Him in the same manner!  It is no wonder that David said what he said in this passionate Psalm: “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am with you.”

Therefore: “Search me O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.”

It would seem obvious that God would already know our thoughts.  But it is not until we ask him to search us and try us, that we can experience His deep penetrating redemption.  I have never enjoyed the discipline of the Lord…but afterwards, it has always yielded the peaceable fruits of righteousness…and this, I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world…”So Lord God, search me, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts….and please lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil, so that I may enjoy your presence, and be a blessing to others, especially my family.”