The Blessings of an Inescapable God!

I return today to the thought of hiding from God and the fact that the one who calls God, Father and his Son, Lord; that one has no need nor even desire to hide from God. I take as my example David who said:

O Lord, You have searched me and known me
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

 Psalm 139:1-6 ASV

As David contemplated God's Omnipresence and His Omniscience he realized that it meant no hiding from God was possible, no avoiding God's sovereign decree could take place. Now some might complain about this. Some might consider God's practice of enclosing us and laying his hands upon us as too much. They might say, "give me some room God, let me live my own life, do not smother me so with your overbearing character." But this is not the thought of David or any other believer. For the child of God, it is a thought too wonderful and too high that one so awesome and holy, would care to consider him.

And it is more than this. David knew that if God considered him, thought about him, listened to him all to such a degree that he knew David's thoughts, knew when he lay down and where he walked, then God also would be with him in the darkness that so often is this life.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.

Psalm 139:11-12 ASV

Oh, what a joy it is to know that God, my Father truly is inescapable!

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