daily devotions 4th March 2017

Psalm 139: 4Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.

It has been said that after many years of living together, a man and his wife would now each other so well that they would not need to express in words what their subtle body language would convey.

Sometimes a stare with her eyes would make the husband retract his plans, or sometimes a cynical smile from the wife would give the answer to the question the husband had asked. A smile could mean and approval and a blessing or a smile can mean a warning, which says try it if you dare?

Also the intuition of a woman is very sensitive to the needs of a child, the mother can interpret every cry or reaction of a child and would be able to know exactly the child’s needs. This is the love and proximity that the mother has built and developed with the child.

In the same manner God our Heavenly Father also knows each and every one of His children. He is in the third heaven where His eyes go to and fro watching out for His children and His ear is always attentive to our call and cry.

David who has such a close and intimate relationship with the Father wrote in this psalm ‘Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely’ David wrote through his experience with God. David had been through many challenging situations before in his life and each time He knew that no matter how challenging the situation was, God was there to see him through.

Therefore it was a personal conviction that David wrote this psalm and we are reminded that as David had experienced God’s love and mercy, we too can experience the same with our Heavenly Father.

Recently I too went through a challenging time and during that period I experienced a prompting which I did not respond to and it was only after that and seeing the results that I understood that God was actually prompting me to the situation and I failed to take heed and had to suffer the consequences.