Psalm 139:4-6: God's Presence Consumes Our Existence!

Yesterday (Sunday 2/19/2012) was really busy so I was not able to put together a blog post for Psalm 139:4-6. However, the following is the post I had planned writing yesterday. Don’t worry, I’m not sinking back into my old habit of starting a blog post system and then abandoning it a few days later.

Psalm 139:4-6 “For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”

Verses 4-6 are clearly keeping with the theme of the first three verses which is the omniscient and omnipresent nature of God; a powerful truth that all Christians should familiarize themselves with.
How many people know exactly what they are going to say in the future? I know I don’t. Yeah, you may on special occasions write a speech for yourself, but I’m talking about your everyday life, whether you are sitting at the dinner table with your family, working at the office, or even ordering food at a drive-in, you never know what you are going to say. You may have planned scenarios in your head, but do you ever actually know what you are truly going to say? I know I don’t. In most normal everyday situations you don’t have a clue as to what you are truly going to say next. Yet God does. God knows every word you are going to speak before you speak them. God knew every word you have ever spoken, or ever will speak, before you even learned to talk. That’s how omniscient (all knowing) God is. But it doesn’t stop there with talking about how God is omniscient, it then goes on to say how God is omnipresent (Everywhere). The LORD besets us behind and before and he lays his hand upon us. That means he is in our past, he is in our future and he is with us right now all at the same time. His presence consumes our existence. Time does not affect him because he is present in all of time all at the same time. Isn’t that amazing? Every time I hear of the omniscient omnipresent power of God, I am wonderstruck. That is why the psalmist wrote the next verse: “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”

These verses teach me one thing and that is God is omniscient and omnipresent. His power is vast, beyond any problem or obstacle I face on this earth, and he will always be there for me throughout every single one. I am never alone, for God is always with me.

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8