Who knows you better than anyone else? Is it your spouse? Is it a parent? Is it a friend? Who do you know best? How well can you know someone else or someone else know you? Are there things you never tell anyone? Are there things you have done you do not talk about?
All of us have someone who knows us very well and someone we know very well. Yet, there are always some things about us they do not know and some things about them we do not know. No one can know everything about someone else, no matter how close they are.
God knows us better than anyone. He may even know us better than we know ourselves. We have a perception of ourselves and may not admit our own faults to ourselves. God sees us without a human perception. He sees us objectively and sees everything about us. God not only sees our actions but knows every thought that passes through our minds.
Knowing that God knows everything about us, even the tiniest bit that we may not admit about ourselves, can be both freeing and terrifying. When we are thinking things we shouldn’t, we can be terrified that God knows it. On the other hand, it can free us to know that God knows all our thoughts so that when we ask for forgiveness, we know he forgives it all. It can also relieve us of the desire to hide our thoughts from him and ask him to change our thinking.
I pray we all know that God knows us—inside and out. I pray we open ourselves up before God. I pray each one of us relinquish the thought of hiding from God and live in freedom. Know that God knows. Know that he knows your thoughts. Stop trying to hide. Be set free. Ask God to change your thinking.
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 