Does God Know?

Today’s message was written by my friend, Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope.

A little boy was going with his father up to the top of the Sears building in Chicago. The express elevator shot up at a speed that was literally breathtaking. When the elevator zoomed past the seventy-fifth floor, the boy said to his father, “Does God know we are coming?”

We smile at that, but it does give an opening for a profound truth of our faith. God does know all about us. We do not skip out of his mind or notice. He’s got the whole world in his hand. That is a great truth to lean your heart and mind up against.

Listen to these words from Psalm 139: “O God you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O God, you know it completely. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the outermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with you. Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Let us pray: God of Love, we thank you that you know we are coming. And thank you for the beautiful surprises you are planning for us today. So often our days look like they will be dismal, depressing, and dark – then an unexpected burst of sunshine explodes through a dark cloud sending inspiring shafts of warm, sunshine into our lives. Lord, it is happening now! We can already feel the power of your love and acceptance, through Christ our Lord. Amen.