D avid confessed: “OLORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether” [Psalm 139:1–4]. When David caught sight of Bathsheba bathing herself and called for her, whatever they did in his private chambers, he thought no one knew. But he had forgotten the words of Moses that when we sin against the LORD, “be sure your sin will find you out” [Numbers 32:23]. Likewise, what we have done in secret will come to light one day. The LORD not only knows what we have done, He also knows our thoughts in the deepest recesses of our hearts (read Hebrews 4:12). Our secret sins therefore are not limited to what we do, but what we think. Our Lord Jesus says that “whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart” [Matthew 5:27–28]. Our hidden motivations are also known to Him. Our Lord Jesus said of the Pharisees that they draw nigh to God with their mouth and honour Him with their lips, but their act of worship is vain because “their heart is far from (Him)” [Matthew 15:8–9]. So as we worship and serve God, let us come with our hearts opened, our desires known, with total transparency for He knows all things.
LESSON
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
THOUGHT
Apart from the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, no man can stand aright under God’s perfect and penetrating knowledge.
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