We Can Say, “He Loved The Lord”

King David, painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, c. 1768

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. (Psalms 139:1 KJV)

We know a lot about David, King of Israel. There’s no doubt he loved the Lord and knew the Lord loved him:

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. (Psalms 139:17-18 KJV)

This entire Psalm is filled with David’s awe at how God knows him – and how much more he wants God to know:

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalms 139:23-24 KJV)

Do we want that same relationship? We would need to acknowledge all that God knows about us:

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. (Psalms 139:2-4 KJV)

Can we accept that God knows us better than anyone else? Can we accept that He knows everyone in that same manner? The person that gives us concern, God not only knows our concern but knows them as well as He knows us. And, He loves them, too. Enough to make them the same gift:

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23 KJV)

It is a beautiful gift:

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23 KJV)

What happens if we refuse it?

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; (Hebrews 2:3 KJV)

I believe we’ve been told what happens if we neglect God’s salvation back in Romans 6:23. If you doubt that, please explain to my why.

If not, then you must believe, as I do, that God exists, has spoken to us through the ages and cares about what we do now. That hundreds of years after David wrote:

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalms 8:4 KJV)

...the writer of Hebrews quotes:

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Hebrews 2:6 KJV)

... and two millennia later, we’re discussing both as scripture. We should study why, shouldn’t we?