“O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.”
Abraham Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” That is true, but what is even truer is that you cannot ever fool God. He is omniscient (all-knowing). We cannot hide from God. David wrote that “thou knowest my foolishness.” When I read that this morning, I thought, man I am really in trouble. If God knows my foolishness, He knows a lot about me. (Don’t laugh it probably applies to you as well. Lol) What is foolishness? According to The American Century Dictionary it is “lacking good sense or judgment, unwise.” This is why the Lord told us in Proverbs 3:5-7: “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not to thine own understanding." 6. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. 7. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord and depart from evil.” Since God knows so much about us, it is understandable that He knows all of our thoughts. There is one illustration I have occasionally shared with churches: “How would we like it if all of our thoughts were placed over our heads like thoughts and words in comic strips?” We would all know what everyone is thinking and I imagine that a lot of relationships would be changed “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” Then we would know a lot of what God already knows about us. That leads to a question: If we care that much about what other people think about our thoughts, why aren’t we as concerned that God knows our thoughts? David also wrote: “and my sins are not hid from thee.” This means that God not only knows what we think but what we do as well. There is nothing that we ever do that God does not see, but God6 has all-seeing eyes. All of the things that we ever think that we have done in secret were not secrets to God. That is a sobering thought isn’t it? As the old saying goes: “You can run but you can’t hide.” I don’t know at what point in David’s life this psalm was written, but when he committed adultery with Bathsheba, he found out that this is really true. Even if David could have hidden what he did from the people and the prophet Nathan, he still would not have gotten away with it, for God already knew it. God knows our every thought and our every deed, but He loves us anyway. That is the good news of the Bible. We are sinners who sometimes think bad thoughts and do bad things, but He loves us anyway Understand that He is not always pleased with us, and because of His love for us will discipline us, but He will also forgive and clean the whole slate. That’s why I’m glad that: “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” Bro. Joe
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