Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 28, 2010: God Is Omniscient (Psalm 139:1-6, 13-16, 23, 24)

Psalm 42:7-8
7 Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.
8 By day the LORD directs his love,
at night his song is with me—







Intimacy. How does that work for you? Who are you intimate with and how does that express itself in your behavior? This is an awfully personal question and forgive me if it makes you uncomfortable, but this is where we are this week: Intimacy with God. There is some level of intimacy in all of our personal relationships. Some small or large level of ‘into me see’ that you’ve allowed in order to move the relationship forward. What that implies is that you’ve trusted someone with a small piece of yourself; intimate details about your life that you don’t necessarily want to become public (can you say ‘You Tube?). Isn’t this where we get crossways with God? His omniscience: His ability to ‘know everything’ can be a bit invasive. Oftentimes, we won’t delve into a deeper place with Him because we think we have to give up our privacy, our ‘freedom’.

Beloved, God already knows everything about you. He knows your was, your is and your what ever will become of you. He knows your fondest memories and your darkest thoughts. And you know what? He loves you. He loves every bit of you. He loves your sitting and your standing, your going and your coming. He wants to hear what you have to say, even though He already knows it before hand. He cares, really cares about you.

What does that mean to you, to me? It means that we can trust Him… completely. We can trust Him with our faults, our weaknesses, our shortcomings. We can turn all of that over to God and He will heal us. It’s OK Beloved, to be intimate with God. It’s OK for you to wake up in the morning thankful. It’s OK for Him share in you daily activities.. all day. It’s OK to invite Him into your daily conversations, to acknowledge Him in all you say and do. It’s OK.

There’s one more thing: God wants you to know Him… intimately. He’s not hiding anything from you. He has and is and will continually reveal Himself to us through Jesus Christ, through His Holy Word and by the Holy Spirit. God is a mystery, but He’s not mysterious. Not to those who earnestly seek Him. You can trust Him beloved. It’s a Holy exchange: all of your self for all of Him. Go ahead. Delve a little deeper…



Blessings,



.wb

1 Corinthians 2:9-11
9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[a]—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.