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The charm of meeting God Heber Campos Jr.
Text: Psalm 139
When I talk about God’s knowledge, I mean his knowledge of us and what we have of him. We need to know God to get to know each other. God knows things about us that we have no way of knowing without him. I am not just talking about intellectual knowledge or theology, because many people know the scriptures, but they do not know God or themselves. This knowledge is more than knowing God. For example, Jonah knew God very well, but he did not know God and did not know God. He did not yet know himself well, he tries to escape from the God who created the sea, by the sea, recognizes that salvation is of the Lord, but does not demand it, theological knowledge ended up hurting him: he believes that he knows God, but does not.
When a Hebrew says he knows his wife, he says he loves her intimately. When we say that we know God, it means something very precious. The intimacy of the Lord is for those who fear Him. Many may think they know God, but there is no intimacy with him.
The verb to know in Hebrew is the key word in this psalm. This is a psalm about the knowledge of God. Let’s quickly move on to the first three parts of the psalm and take a little more time at the end.
God knows David deeply
You can’t escape the presence of Dios. Si someone is trying to escape him, where would he go?In trying to express the escape attempts, David concludes that all this would fail. From the top to the deepest, God is there: “Even if I hitchhiked at the speed of light, I could not escape God’s presence. “Don’t run away from God.
Why couldn’t David run from God? Because God already created you in the most original place in your life, your birth. From the womb of his mother, God already knew and trained him.
From verse 19 to 22, we have an imprecation. You see, the language of the curse is not sinful language. Jesus quotes unforeseen psalms. The non-sining Savior uses imprecise language against the Pharisees of his time; In addition, souls redeemed in Revelation pray vaguely, pronouncing a language of judgment; the reaction of the Psalmist who surprises us is also very instructive; represent God’s retribution. Justice. You can’t stay quiet when the one you love the most is offended. This part is about those who take the name of God in vain, and David hates those who hate the Lord. Unreaching language represents a future hope for God’s judgment.
The language in verses 21 and 22 is quite heavy. David’s hatred is deep and global. David’s kind of anger was in danger of exaggeration. He has accomplished something that can easily become a sinner. The curse even surprises David. La the line between sin and justice is beautiful. How often do we deal with unjust things, and should we?But do we make him a sinner? That’s why anger shows us so much who we are, because when we explode it reveals what we love, dropping our masks.
That’s when I see something fascinating that David learned. David begins to understand that his passions can be dangerous. He knows the intensity of his sin and that he can pollute even the most holy things and the deepest moments of prayer, so he ends the psalm as it ends, no long as he certainly says, vaguely, that the wicked are punished, he knows that his holy wrath can be contaminated. He asks God to search him and remove all impurities. David hasn’t done anything wrong, but he’s aware that he can fail. In verse 23, it is as if he said, “Lord, I know you are looking, but you are looking again. He wants God to remove all dirt, even the most secret and hidden. He doesn’t trust his conscience.
Peter’s last recommendation, in his second letter, is that we grow in the knowledge of God, this is a message for those who already know God, thanks to this knowledge Peter was able to know himself better.
When Jesus was on Simon’s boat, a teacher, He told Peter to take the boat deeper and cast out the nets; the nets filled up and began to break. Peter saw all this and said to Jesus, Get away from me, that I am a sinner. “Seeing what Jesus had done revealed his skepticism and disbelief. Jesus could have said, “Okay!” but He didn’t. God takes care of his children.
The second occasion is famous. This is jesus’ conversation with Peter after denied Christ three times. Jesus asks three times if Peter loves him and Peter says yes. The third time he asks, Peter becomes sad and replies, “Jesus, you know everything. “words: “You examine me and know me. ” Jesus comes to Peter. Jesus treats people, just like you and me. Look at Christ and he will take care of you, as Peter and David have treated you; that we never lose the charm of the Lord.