Psalm 139:13

Psalm 139:13

God knows everything about us

The scene changes and God’s knowledge of us becomes even more bewildering! This verse reminds us that we were not simply the products of a moment of passion or the fulfilled desire of parents to have a family. No, we are part of God’s creation, it was His plan for us to be born and to have a life in this world. Notice that it is our “innermost beings” that He has a particular interest in. The Hebrew word here is literally “kidneys” for in ancient thought, these organs (along with the heart) were the centre of our emotions and moral character. Thus, when God searches us (v1, 23), He scrutinises our innermost organs or perhaps more accurately, He examines our deepest motives and consciences. 

It is a sobering to realise that it is not just our words and actions that God knows and evaluates, it’s not just our thoughts that He scrutinises, He also has access to our motives and our conscience so that He is able to determine what lies behind the thoughts and words and deeds! As we have already said, He knows us better than we know ourselves.

The verse also reminds us that it was God who knit us together in our mother’s womb, in other words, no part of us came about without His involvement, we are not accidents or the product of mistakes or lack of judgement; every life is the consequence of God’s creative power. Just because society values some lives as being greater or more useful or more acceptable than others, does not mean that God has the same values. All life is given by Him at the point that He knits it into place. That is why abortion is murder and an abomination to the Creator and those who love and trust Him. However, I should add that this does not mean that those involved cannot be forgiven!

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