Do you allow others to get to know you? Are you an open book? Are you reserved and hesitant about opening up to others? Are there some parts of your life you never reveal to someone else? Do you know God knows everything there is to know about you?
We all know someone who tells whoever they meet everything that is going on in their life. We may even say they expose far too much of their life, more than we want to know. They are an open book that we wish was closed or not quite so open.
We also know people who keep to themselves. They do not reveal much about themselves. Perhaps to the point that we wonder what they are hiding. They may open up and begin to reveal things about themselves after they get to know us. We may fall into one or the other of these descriptions. Yet, even the person who is considered to be an open book is not as well known by someone else as they are by God.
We may acknowledge intellectually that God knows us inside and out. But I wonder if we fully understand that. God knows our thoughts. He knows what we do not say. He knows why we choose to say some things and not others. He knows why we do some things and not others. In other words, he knows our motives. God even knows what we are going to do or say before we do. But this does not eliminate our freewill. It simply demonstrates the awesomeness and power of God.
We cannot hide from God, even if we hide from other people. So, what are we to do that? We are to be honest with God and ourselves. We are to confess our shortcomings to God and ask him to help us correct them. We are to recognize and give him the glory for how awesome he is.
I pray we all recognize the awesomeness of God. I pray we know that he knows everything there is to know about us. I pray each one of us will give God the glory he deserves to receive. God knows you. He knows your thoughts. He knows your actions. Confess to God. Give God the glory.
Psalm 139:1-2
O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
Marty Pressey 