Fully Known Deeply Loved
Over the last few weeks, I have come to love King David’s beautifully crafted message found in Psalm 139. As I reflect on this scripture, I can’t help but relate this to building a team and how it’s a leader’s responsibility to know and engage members of the team. I believe God has placed leaders in a uniquely different serving opportunity for a reason. As members of the body of Christ, we are to serve others before we serve ourselves because that is what Jesus Christ taught while He was on earth. Matthew tells us, “…the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Meditate on this scripture. We have a God that cares deeply about us and is recklessly pursuing a relationship with His people. As believers, our primary aim is to make disciples of Jesus Christ and lead them into the way everlasting.
Lord, you have searched me and known me.
God knows everything about me. He knows me better than I know myself and loves me still. In his adoration of God, David reminds us that God is all-knowing and ever-present. There is no god like our God. He stands alone. Holy. His divine knowledge of us is thorough and intimate. David goes on to tell us that God knows when we sit down and when we stand-up, He knows when we come and when we go before we speak a word-He knows it. His knowledge of us reaches beyond even our comprehension.
Where can I go to escape your Spirit?
I believe verse seven takes us back to the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve sin and fled from God’s presence. Since the fall of humanity, that level of intimacy has seemed threatening to us. We think that “if people really knew who I was, they wouldn’t love me.” That is a lie that the devil likes to use to keep us isolated from God. This isolation causes us to forget God’s goodness and the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. We cannot go anywhere without God nor do anything without His hand to guide us.
Your works are wondrous, and I know this very well.
God, being the Creator He is, knows every intricate detail about how our bodies are formed and knit together in our mother’s wombs. We were remarkably and wondrously made and we were made hidden and in secret by Him. His eyes saw us formless just like He saw the earth before He created it. Formless and void, yet He created us, knows us, and loves us even before there is anything we can do about it. God’s thoughts about us are so precious and difficult to understand that they would outnumber the grains of sand on the earth.
Search me, God, and know my heart
At the beginning of this Psalm, David states, “Lord, you have searched me and known me.” At the end of the Psalm, David invites God into this relationship and knows that he cannot live without God. He asks God to take away the idols in his life that he might not even realize. David reminds us of God’s holiness and how we should respond.
Every member that walks through the doors of your organization should feel known and loved by leaders and members alike. As leaders, we get to play an intricate part in making that a reality.
