Devotional for Friday, April 22, 2016
“He Knows Us Inside and Out”
by Dona Hake
The other day I had many errands to run and I decided to stop and have breakfast at a nearby restaurant. I went to give the waitress my order, and my mind went blank on the kind of toast I wanted, and she goes, “You want whole wheat dry with butter on the side, right?” I looked up in amazement first of all for I could not believe the memory of this waitress. You see, I have not seen her for probably over ten years. She went to work some place else and then came back to this restaurant. Then she said, “Can I get you anything else Dona?” I giggled and remarked how I could not get over her keen memory. Wow! she even remembered my name! She said, “I don’t know how it works, it’s like I see faces and I just remember all the details…”
You know our loving Heavenly Father also knows everything about us. Each of us are so very special in His eyes, and He sees every detail about us as special and noteworthy. He knows our heart’s desires and He has every hair on our heads numbered. Let us look at this scripture where the Psalmist is marveling over his loving God because he knows how much He cares for him, and how God’s thoughts and plans about him are as treasures.
Psalm 139:17-18
“Your thoughts and plans are treasures to me, O God! I cherish each and every one of them!
How grand in scope! How many in number!
If I could count each one of them, they would be more than all the grains of sand on earth. Their number is inconceivable!”
The Psalmist speaks in this chapter of how God has explored his heart and knows exactly who he is. He observes our coming and our going, He watches over us as we sleep, and He is there when we rise in the morning. He knows what we are going to say long before we say it because He knows our every thought. What an amazing feeling we should all have knowing how deeply He loves us and knows us inside and out. It really is beyond comprehension!
As I read this Psalm and think about the sands of the ocean it causes me to realize that I really cannot fathom how many thoughts the God of heaven has thought about me. In saying that it reminds me as well that His thoughts are different than mine because He sees us through His pure love, and His thoughts and ways will always be higher than how my mind thinks.
Isaiah 55:9 (ASV)
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
He sees our future through His eyes and He desires that our faith rest in Him. I am thankful that I serve such a loving God that loves me so much!