Ps139 - Getting to know you, getting to know all about you.

Your invitation to Fusion.

What I love about this Psalm is that it's a very personal song of God's complete involvement in our lives. It isn't like some of the other Psalms that are so beautifully poetic that you admire them from a distance rather than engaging with them intimately. Here you feel involved in the song, it is your song.

When you hang out with someone for too long you can begin to feel relationally claustrophobic (or at least I do). You need space every now and again. However, when I read this Psalm it feels the opposite - it‘s liberating, completely liberating!

"O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me." Ps 139:1

It's so hard to be totally honest with people even when you are not trying to hide anything from them. This is because we can't read each others minds I guess. For example, you may say something, but the words you use somehow don't convey exactly what you want them to (it's like comparing a pencil drawing with a poor sense of perspective with a photograph). Then, if that wasn't frustrating enough, who you are talking to listens to what you are saying but they can only understand you through their own experience. Their interpretation is not always the same as yours. In the end while you are not truthfully/completely understood.

It is different [less frustrating] with God, He knows us more than we do ourselves. We can be confident in His presence because there is nothing to hide or reveal. No other relationship we have has this sort of liberation. It feels great!