The Fathers Heart

As I was going through my devotions today, I felt God pulling me to really understand more about Him. I felt that God wanted me to more fully understand His own heart. I have been reading through Romans lately, but today I read from the Psalms. Psalm 139 showed me a great deal of the Fathers heart.

When reading this a definite theme comes across, this theme is that God knows us very well, and that His greatest gift is to allow us to know Him.

God knows us!

Psalm 139 1-4 (NIV):
"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my laying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord."

God knows each and everyone of us this well. Whether you are a believer or not, God knows you this well. God knows everything about us; He knows our deepest darkest secrets. In verse 13 it says "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." If God knew us even when we were in our mothers womb what can shelter us from Him.

God longs for us to have a personal relationship with Him. Psalm 139 reveals to us God's heart. God is everywhere; verses 7-12 show that we cannot escape His presence. "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I glee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me; your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become darkness around me,' even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like day, for darkness is as light to you."

There is nowhere that we could possibly go to escape God. We often don't let people get to know us because we are afraid that they will discover something about us that they will not like. God already knows everything about us, and even though He knows our deepest darkest secrets; things that we fear others knowing. God still accepts us and loves us. He knows and loves us completely.

God is omnipresent; there is nowhere that we can go that will separate us from His love. He will never forsake those who know Him and love Him. Those who are believers this is good news to you; as believers we can never be far away from God's comforting presence and love.

From verse 13-16 of Psalm 139 we see God's hand in every single human beings existence. "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in that secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

"God was personally involved in our existence. From the time we were conceived He knew our every action, our every day. God knows everything we will do in our lifetime; He knows everyday of our life. He knows everything about us because He created us. We are His children, He is our father.

God thinks about us so much, He thinks about every man, woman, and child more than we could ever hope to think of anything in one day. Verses 17-18 "How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Where I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you." God is constantly thinking about each and every one of us we are never not on His mind.

So you might be thinking now how does any of this apply to what I stated before, about understanding God's heart. How does all of this help us to know who He is? Psalm 139 shows how much God loves us, how we cannot ever stray to far from His presence.

If God loves each one of us so much, what does that say about Him? God is a loving God, He thinks about us so much each day. He Himself even had His hand in our existence. He knit us together in our mother's wombs. How more personal can anything get than that? God wants us to know Him personally.

God's heart is geared towards us, He loves us unconditionally. He yearns to have a relationship; a personal relationship with every single one of us. God's heart breaks for those who do not know Him. This reveals so much about God's character to me. It shows how truly selfless God is. It reveals to us how much He loves us, how much He loves both the believer and the non-believer.

If God's heart is so set upon having a relationship should we not spend time getting to know more about Him? There is so much more to the character and heart of God than what this passage has revealed. I know that I need to get to know God more personally. This verse has challenged me to do so.

God's heart is not only that of great love; God's heart yearns for a relationship with us. This shows that God is relational; He wants us to love Him. He loves us like a father loves his child. This has revealed to me so much about the fathers heart,; but even in light of this there is so much more about God, and His heart that I yearn to learn.

I hope that though this post I have challenged you to get to know God on a more personal level. I also hope that I have been able to help you to understand a little bit more about the Father's heart. It is so important to understand how much He thinks of us. And how much he loves us.

Until Next Time
God bless you all