Search

One of my favorite parts of most websites is the “search bar”. I can type in a key word and find most anything inside the site. A new phrase that has become popular in our Internet world is “Google it”. I can search Google for nearly anything I want to know and I can find some sort of information on it.  David pens a fantastic psalm about having the Lord do some searching on me. Check this out…

1 You have searched me, Lord,


    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, Lord, know it completely.

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.

23 Search me, 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. (Psalm 139:1-4;13-15;23-24 NIV)

 

The Lord made me so He knows me. He knows my thoughts. He sees the activity of my brain and how it translates into behavior. Nothing I can do, think or say is hidden from Him.

His search of my heart is more thorough than the alga rhythms of Google. His brain scan is more thorough than a CT scan. He searches me. He knows me. He is the Creator and Designer of me and He knows how I function. I’m learning that nothing is hidden from Him.  We sing a song at church call “Search My Heart” by Hillsong United that makes this a prayer. It’s the prayer of my heart today.

Pressing On!

Dwayne