Psalm 139:1-3 “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”
Wow, it’s only the first three verses and its already jam packed with amazing truths! I love that about God’s word! I decided to take the chapter 3 verses at a time, a nice easy pace that won’t let me get caught up with just memorizing words, but rather help me to really meditate on the truths within those words.
♫ “Santa Claus is coming to town. He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.” ♫
When the writers of this famous secular Christmas song wrote that particular verse, they had the incentive, I’m sure, to put the idea in the minds of their young listeners that Santa Claus knows everything about you; when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake too! While that is just a fairytale idea thought up by parents who want obedient children, the reality with God is quite the same. He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake and he even knows when you’ve been bad or good! (See Proverbs 5:21) Only with God, it’s not just a scare tactic to get you to be good, but rather it is a reassuring promise.
I don’t know if you know or not (whether it be due to the fact that you don’t know me well enough or I just hide it really well) but I do a whole lot of excessive thought towards my past, present, and future. My mind is constantly on “What did I do yesterday? What do I do now? What am I going to do?” and this unhealthy thought process is discouraged in many passages in the bible. For instance in Matthew 6:34 it says “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” This means that I should stop worrying about what I’m supposed to do tomorrow (or in my case also worrying about what I did yesterday), and start focusing on what God wishes me to do today. How can I just let go of my worrisome habit? Easily, by meditating on the promise spoken in Psalm 139:1-3 that speaks of how God is in control, and he knows my downsitting and my uprising, he understands my thoughts afar off (Before my feeble mind considers them), and he is acquainted with all my ways (Past, Present, Future)
I need to start living in “Daylight compartments” refusing to let the regrets of yesterday and the fears of tomorrow rob me of the joy I can have in Christ today.
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