Deal With Sin: God Knows
OPENING PRAYER:
Dear Father, because I know that you have the words of truth, I ask for insight and encouragement today from your Word. In Jesus name, Amen.
“Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.”
REFLECT:
Absolutely, positively, 100% for sure, there is no one, not one, that knows us like the Lord Jesus. He knows our hearts. he knows our paths, before and after. He knows our ways and he certainly can see our sin. He knows each of us better than we know ourselves.
So, what do you and I do with this? Is it scary so we run and hide? Is it threatening so we protect ourselves? Is it so humiliating that we crumble in defeat? Or, is it the best and most freeing truth ever? The writer of Psalm says, “such knowledge is too wonderful for me…” Psalm 139:6a.
The writer understood that, in combination with God’s wonderful forgiving love for him, there was now real hope in changing and improving. There is someone to go to with everything. He already knows us, loves us anyway and he desires our best.
APPLY:
To deal with sin, it must be out there. You cannot do radical life-saving open-heart surgery without opening the chest and getting to the heart. God knows and understands all about you. Allow this truth to help you own and see your disobedience to a holy God in the way he sees it.
CLOSING PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, that you know what is in me and what needs to be changed. “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.” Amen
CONTINUED READING:
Proverbs 5:21; Jeremiah 16:17; Psalm 139:3
WORSHIP: