Prayers and reflections marveling at the thoroughgoing manner in which God knows us - with invitations for Him to deeply search us out

2. PSALM 139 – THOROUGHLY KNOWN
“You have searched me, LORD, and you
know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you
perceive my thoughts from afar.” (vss 1, 2)
Searched – penetrating knowledge, thorough
examination, to explore
Know – intimate acquaintance, deeply familiar

3. VSS 2 – 6 = SEARCHED AND KNOWN
• When I sit down, rise up (my rest, my activities)
• My thoughts from afar (what’s on my mind)
• My going out, lying down (all my ways (my patterns of living,
lifestyle)
• What I’m going to speak
• Hem me in, lay Your hand upon me (You contain me, steady
me, precede and follow me)
v. 6 (Msg) – “This is too much, too wonderful — I can’t take it
all in!”

4. NO LOCATION OBSCURES, DARK NOR LIGHT
Vss 7 – 12
• SKY
• UNDERGROUND
• TO THE HORIZONS
• “YOU SEE IN THE DARK”

5. FROM PRE-BIRTH TO END OF DAYS
Vss 14 – 16, Msg
“You know me inside and out, you know every
bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by
bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into
something. Like an open book, you watched
me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out
before you”

6. FINAL PRAYER – VSS 23, 24 KJV
“ Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and
know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me
in the way everlasting.”
• Search me
• Know me
• Try (confirm, substantiate) me
• See (settle the issue)
• And Lead me