Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 136-142.

I echo the sentiments the psalmist expresses in today’s first psalm: give thanks to the Lord because He is good!  He has done wonderful things and His love endures forever.  When we call to Him, He answers.  He rescues us from our troubles.  More importantly, He has searched our hearts and knows us thoroughly.  He knows what we are going to do before we have the thought.  He knows us completely.  The way the psalmist expresses God’s knowledge of us is so powerful.  He writes that hiding from God is not possible.  There is no place we could go, or even a place we cannot go to, where God could not see us.  There is no place where God is not already there.  On the one hand, that means that we cannot hide from God and that it is pointless to try.  However, it also means that there is no place where God cannot reach us to save us from trouble.  The psalmist goes from there to explain that God not only knows our thoughts and our actions, but He knows how we are “put together”.  He knows the intricacies of our bodies and of our minds because He built them.  He understands how we have allowed sin to distort us from what He made us to be, and because He made us He knows how to put us right again after we have been damaged.  So, let us call on God to search our thoughts and desires in order to settle our anxious thoughts and lead us away from offensive thoughts so that we may serve Him faithfully.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.