OUR DAILY BREAD 5TH JANUARY 2025 DEVOTIONAL, SUNDAY ODB MESSAGE
Our Daily Bread 5th January 2025 Devotional TOPIC: God Knows Everything
BIBLE IN YEAR: Genesis 13-15; Matthew 5:1-26
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KEY VERSE: You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. – Psalm 139:3 nlt
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Psalm 139:1-12
TODAY’S ODB INSIGHT
Psalm 139 is one of the most intimate of the psalms. Such closeness comes through in David’s extensive use of second- and first-person pronouns. John Stott makes this observation in his book Authentic Christianity: “ Psalm 139 is arguably the most radical statement in the Old Testament of God’s personal relationship to the individual.
Personal pronouns and possessives occur in the first person (I, me, my) forty-six times and in the second person (you, yours) thirty-two times.” This intimacy prompts the psalmist’s praise (vv. 14, 17-18) and prayers that consider his and God’s enemies (vv. 19-22) and his desire for deeper communion with Him: “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (vv. 23-24).
OUR DAILY BREAD 5 JANUARY 2025 – SUNDAY ODB DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE:
God truly knows all. But according to an article in The Wall Street Journal, the National Security Agency knows a great deal about us as well through our smartphone data trails. Everyone who owns a cell phone creates “metadata” that leaves a “digital trail.” While each individual crumb of data might seem insignificant, when it’s combined and analyzed, it provides “one of the most powerful investigative tools ever devised.” By tracing our metadata, investigators can pinpoint where we’ve been or where we are at any given moment.
Far more superior than the NSA’s digital trail analysis, David said God knows where we are in relation to Him. In Psalm 139, he addresses a prayer to God, the one who alone can search and examine what’s going on inside of us (v. 1). The psalmist wrote, “Search me, God, and know my heart” (v. 23). He knows everything about us (vv. 2-6), is present everywhere (vv. 7-12), and “created [our] inmost being” (vv. 13-16). His thoughts are higher than our human understanding (vv. 17-18), and He’s even with us as we face our enemies (vv. 19-22).
Because God is all-knowing, ever-present, and all-powerful, He knows exactly where we’ve been, what we’ve been doing, and what we’re made of. But He’s also a loving Father who will help us walk in His ways. Let’s follow Him down the trail of life today.
REFLECT: How does it encourage you to know God truly knows you? How are you walking with Him?
PRAY: Dear God, thank You for loving me even though You know all about me. Please help me to walk well with You.
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