Aunt Jenny had been painting a picture all morning. It was an oil painting of the barn, lake and woods which she could see from her living room window. The picture was about half finished as she put her brushes away to stop for lunch. As she stood back to study the picture, her little niece Patti came running into the living room.
Patti saw Aunt Jenny looking at the picture. She stopped and looked at it too and said, “That’s a pretty sky, Aunt Jenny. Are you going to put God in it?”
Aunt Jenny did not expect that question, so she asked, “What do you mean, Patti?”
“Well,” answered Patti, “if God lives in the sky, shouldn’t you put Him in your sky picture?”
Patti did not know what King David said about God in Psalm 139. King David said that God is everywhere! He said that God is before me and behind me; He is above me and beneath me. How can I run away from Him? If I rise up to heaven, He is there. If I go to the very deepest, He is there. Even the darkness cannot hide me from Him, because darkness and light are both the same to God.
Yes, King David found out that God is everywhere! He saw Him when he woke up and in everything he did during the day. So King David just talked to God and said, “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” (Psalm 139:23-2423Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23‑24)).
I hope Aunt Jenny and Patti make the wonderful discovery that King David made. Have you made that discovery too, that God is everywhere? And no matter what you do or where you go, He can see you.
ML-06/15/2014