“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain….How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand – when I awake, I am still with you.”
- Psalm 139:6, 17, 18
Yesterday I laid on the beach half asleep. In my daze, I ran my fingers through a fistful of sand. I watched in quiet amazement, thousands of quartz pebbles cascading through the gaps of my fingers. Then I thought of Psalm 139. I have always loved this psalm, but today, I had an epiphany about it. It made me consider the magnitude of God’s awesomeness.
As I peered down into my sand-filled palm, I noticed that I could see each individual grain of sand – I could actualy count them. If I were to go so far, I could arrange them into groups by colour and size. Then I thought about what God. What would He know about the sand? I believe He would know each pebble individually. He would know how many edges each single pebble had. He would know where the pebble came from, each single motion it took since the dawn of time. He would know which sea bed it once laid in. Our awesome God would know this for each and every grain of sand. He would know it’s life story and know it’s future. Now that is awesome!
God knows me much more than I know myself. He knows me from my deepest, darkest secret to the very hair on my knuckles. He would know my every thought, my every desire, and each present and future decision. I think I have touched the surface in understanding the solitary fact that the Lord knows me. In fact, He knows me beyond all comprehension – and that for the other seven billion of us in the world.
God is awesome. He is much bigger than we could ever imagine. He is impossibly huge and His intelligence knows no bounds. I get a headache even imagining how much He knows, that He would even know every single detail past, present and future, regardng one tiny grain of sand. If He knows this about a pebble, then surely He knows me fully.
I praise God that I am wonderfully made. I praise Him that He knows me. I pray that I learn to trust in Him more. For if His eye is on the sparrow, so much more then, His eye is on me.
“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”
- Matthew 10:29-31
