CAC LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR APRIL 3, 2022 : TOPIC – GOD WHO KNOWS ME INSIDE OUTSIDE
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Sunday, April 3, 2022.
GOD WHO KNOWS ME INSIDE OUTSIDE
Read: Psalm 139:1-24
Psalms 139:1-24 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.
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.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
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 still with thee.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
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.
MEMORISE: I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvellous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well (Psalms 139:14).
EXPOSITION
The fact that God knows man intrinsically and extrinsically amazed the Psalmist so much that he said that such knowledge was too wonderful for him; too high to attain. The truth is that, God knows all about man. What is inside man and those situations around him, are not hidden from God. He knows man inside outside, i.e in his entirely. God needs no one to introduce man to Him (Jn. 2:25). After all, He is Omniscient.
God knows you well, more than you know yourself. He predetermined your life. All that you are going to be are already determined in His master – plan. Isn’t it better to go to God for the blueprint of your life, rather than dragging your life with Him Who owns the key that opens and closes your existence?;A Yoruba adage translates, “A corpse does not hide its parts from the one who is to bath it.” Isn’t it better to open up to the One Who knows you entirely? Those who have adjusted their belief systems against God and His supreme existence are doing themselves the worst of harms, because the fact that they claim there is no God neither stops His existence nor reduces His power in any way.
That God is all-knowing, all -seeing, all-powerful, and present everywhere should trigger us to praise, honour and revere Him the more, as well as fear, trust and obey Him. It should also move us to call upon Him for help and intervention in all situations. We should cooperate with Him. You cannot hide Him.
PRAYER POINTS:
1. Lord, I thank You for making me, fearfully and wonderfully, in Your Own image and likeness, and for Your good thoughts towards me.
2. Lord, help me to be conscious of the fact that You know me entirely, and to translate this to close relationship with You.
3. Pray for CAC Babalola Region, our father in the Lord, the Superintendent, and its officers at the various levels, as led by the Spirit of God.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: 1 Samuel 26 – 30