Knowledge Who Knows Me Best?

Knowledge

Who Knows Me Best?

There are many Quizzes and tests you can use to see who knows you best

They ask about the things you like

 

 Do these games reveal the answer?

The other day a man came up to be and asked if I

was Bill Self, I said yes He said do you remember me?.

I did not remember until he told me he worked

at a place I did business with over 20 years ago.

We are recognized by a lot of people

but who knows you best?

The question of “Who am I?” goes beyond what I like and

dislike, my physical shapes, and even the things I did.

There are those who know us very well,

 a mother or father, a spouse, a son or daughter.

 So, “Who knows you best?”

When you look into a mirror what do you see?

Are you the one “Who knows you best?”

How wonderful it is to have people who know us.

They give us the right gifts, say the

right things, make us feel we matter.

Life is wonderful when we are

with friends who know us best.

The Psalmist said…

  

“O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 

 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  

 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

 You hem me in — behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.”

He realized God knows every place we have been

and are, the highs and lows and God is there.

The things we try to hide from others and

God in darkness are not dark to God.

From conception, the mysteries of the womb, the shaping

of the body, soul and spirit were by the hands of God.

The Psalmist realized that there was

nothing God did not know about him.

Although God knows us best

we cannot fully understand it…

 “Such knowledge is too wonderful

for me, too lofty for me to attain.” V.6

Listen to the description of the Psalmist

as he thinks about Who knows him best.

“How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.”

The Psalmist thinks he is dreaming…

“When I awake, I am still with you.”

God’s knowledge and thoughts of you are “precious”.

It is this personal understanding that God knows

you best that opens the door of confidence and trust.

Hope that God can change the

things in his life that hinder him.

That God is able to lead him on the

path of life and into eternal life.

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 

See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

So the question is not so much,

 “Who knows you best?”…

But, “Do you know Who knows you Best?”

Scripture Reading

Psalm 139 NIV

139 O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

5 You hem me in — behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

For the director of music. A psalm of David.