In the morning I will be scanned. No, I am not going through an airport but instead to a local hospital. The intrusive rays of the giant donut-like machine will peer into my inner parts and show all the flaws and irregularities that have resulted from so many decades of life. I cannot help but think of Psalm 139 which begins, “You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.” Ah, now there is something the scanner cannot see – my thoughts. Those are private between me and my Creator/Savior.
Verses 13 and onward read, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
That is spectacular. We are watched and known prior to our birth. According to this Psalm there is nowhere we can go that He does not watch and care. Finally, the last two verses say, “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
If the doctors see something strange on my scan hopefully they can fix it. When God sees something strange in my thoughts, He promises to fix it. There is no “hopefully” about it. It is for sure.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 8, 2013
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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