God knows me

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Psalm 139: 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you knowg 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, Lord, know it completely.

As Christians, we believe in God being omniscient. In the sense that He knows everything and that includes us, inside out. As David mentioned in Psalm 139:4, even before a word is uttered on my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely. In fact, He knows us better than ourselves. Like a third-person narrator of a story, God knows everything about us, every single detail of our past, every single motivation whether we did something sincerely or out of self interests or out of ill will or envy or anger.

The question this morning is that when we say God knows us, what actually does He know? What is our perception of what He knows about us, and what is our response? Is what He knows our conniving and deceitful ways? Does God know us as though we are Jacob? Is the person He knows us as someone who is selfish, hypocritical, or greedy? You see, no one knows who we truly are deep inside us except God Himself or His Son Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit.

Or does God know us as one transformed? Transformed in our mind per Romans 12:2, having not conformed to the pattern of this world. One who is well on our journey to eternity, walking the narrow path despite our past, despite our fleshy desires. One who has left our old man baggage and burdens behind and has taken the offer by Christ, where His burden is easy and His yoke is light for He is gentle and humble in heart. Have we become the Israel of Jacob as Jacob was renamed after his encounter with the angel?

Perhaps we should ask the question in another way. When we say God knows us, do we want God to say we have transformed to become much more like Christ, compared to the day when we first knew Him? That we have a good measure of the Fruit of the Spirit and we are a good and faithful servant, a living sacrifice that is a sweet incense of worship unto Him? Who we are today and in the days to come? Not so much who we were in the past or even yesterday.