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Think for a moment about your earliest memory! Try and discount the ones that are manufactured through photos or things your parents have told you.

Being known and loved by someone more powerful, experienced and knowledgeable seems to be built into the very fabric of life.

Watch the story below of a teenage girl who was adopted as a baby and as you watch it see if you can feel the depth of her desire to be known by the parents who bore her.

The God who Knows Us – Psalm 139:1-6

This psalm expressed the relationship between God and an individual in such a warm, familiar intimate way. Theologians have a word to describe what David is talking about, they call it omniscience of God.

There is nothing in our lives that can surprise God. He knows what we’re like, He knows what we’re doing, He knows what we’re thinking. He defines the boundaries of our life from before our life begins to after it ends.

The God who is with Us – Psalm 139:7-12

In this Psalm David finds three completely opposite places, but God often seems to live in tensions and contrasts. In the heavens God is there!

In the comfort and safety of dawn as the sun rises on another day God is there! At the far and unknown side of an ocean that is unexplored and intimidating, God is there!

The God who made Us – Psalm 139:13-18

Some actually reject that passage. How easy it is for King David, this magnificent specimen of a man to say that. On another level it is accepted the theory of what David says here but we are left wondering if we’re a dud. Some of us may even hate the way God made us.

Our Response to Psalm 139 is we recognise it’s an unequal relationship. We have this God who knows everything there is to know about us, but yet we have this God who we know so little about.

The Bible tells us that life is always going to be an unequal knowing but one day that will change.

1 Corinthians 13:12 reads, “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”