Knowledge that is too Wonderful & High for Me

Knowledge that is too Wonderful & High for Me

By Marsha Iddings

Psalm 139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Recently I made a scrapbook for friends of mine to help celebrate the birth of their baby. I included a page with Psalm 139 printed out. I've been musing over this Psalm ever since.

I'd like to spend a few devotionals in this Psalm.

The first 5 verses talk about how intimately God knows us.

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

God is all-knowing.  According to these verses He knows me better than I know myself.  He knows every word that is in my tongue even before I speak it.  He knows every thought that is on my mind.

He is before me and behind me.  Nothing takes Him by surprise that might take me by surprise.  He is already in my future and He already knows it. 

 

He is acquainted with all my ways.  He knows what my besetting sins are.  He knows my struggles.  He knows my personality, and the deep desires of my heart.

The Psalmist says this knowledge is too hard for him to understand.  He can't wrap his brain around it.

There are those who would say that God would not make Himself too hard for us to comprehend.  But scripture paints a different picture of God.

 

If we as humans were able to fully comprehend God, how He works, and what He is like, then God would not be a very big God. I'm so thankful that God is too complex for me to understand because that means He is big enough to handle my problems.  All praise to our all-knowing God!