The Ever Present All Powerful God Psalm 139:1-12
O Lord , You have searched me and known me . 2 You know [ a ] when I sit down and [ b ] when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You [ c ] scrutinize my [ d ] path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. 4 [ e ] Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord , You know it all. 5 You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it Psalm 139:1-6, NASV When someone refers to God as the "big man in the sky" or something like that I think about how different the God of the Bible is to the way that we sometimes think of Him. Psalm 139 gives us a crystal clear view of the majesty of God and the fact that he is ever present and all powerful. You notice in several places the psalmist early in this chapter uses words like "know", "scrutinize" and "intimately acquainted". The word scr