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“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.  Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”                  -Hebrews 4:13

Uncovered

We can’t hide from God.  Far too often we try to hide by ignoring him or avoiding him.  No matter what, God sees us all.  No one is hidden from his sight-nothing in all creation.  Psalm 139 gives a detailed account of a king (David) who understood God’s perspective.  “O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways” (verses 1-3).  In the rest of the psalm, King David continues to talk about just how intimate God knows him:  from conception, to being woven in his mother’s womb, to all of his days being written before they even came to be.  God truly did search and know King David through and through!

And God knows us just as well!  He sees us- wholly, fully, and intimately- every single layer of our body and being.  He sees our thoughts, both good and bad, our emotions, physical pains and joys, heartaches and loves, and all of our stresses.  God sees it all, because nothing is hidden from his view.  And although we try to hide our shame, sin, hurts, confusion, anger, and unbelief, we just can’t.  It’s impossible to hide from God.  “If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you” (verses 12-13).

Know My Heart

Although King David was a man after God’s own heart, he didn’t always understand the concept of God seeing and knowing all things.  There was a time when King David committed both adultery and murder within the same timeframe and then tried to cover it up.  Thankfully, he quickly repented when God’s word and truth (spoken through the Prophet Nathan), came to him.  “Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes?  You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own…Then David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the LORD'” (2 Samuel 2:9;13).  Psalm 51 was then birthed from David’s conviction of sin and his repentance.  “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.   Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin…Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (right) spirit within me” (Psalm 51:1-2; 10).   

How then should we respond to God, knowing he sees our hearts and all the details of our lives? 

Perhaps the way King David responded in Psalm 139:23-24 is a good place to start.  “Search me, O 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.” 

When God’s word comes, may we be quick to repent and turn back to him.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 

-1 John 1:9 

“For the word of God is living and active.  Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.  Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”  

– Hebrews 4:12-13