You may remember playing hide and seek as a child.

I remember playing with the neighborhood kids. There were a few hiding spots I had where I knew the seeker would not be able to find me.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explains why it's impossible for us to hide from God like that.

I invite you to turn to Psalm 139 and to follow along as I read the second section as it were beginning in the seventh verse.

David writes, Where shall I go from your spirit or where shall I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in shell, you are there.

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hands shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the light about me be night. Even the darkness is not dark to you.

The night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. Amen.

From our hearts we say, Speak O Lord as we come to you to receive the food of your holy word.

Take your truth and plant it deep in us, shape and fashion us in your likeness. In Christ's name we ask it. Amen.

Well I think we know this but it's good to remind ourselves of the fact that the Bible expresses great truths from the very beginning to the end in the realm as it were of personal experience.

When we turn to the Bible and sometimes if you give a Bible to somebody and you suggest that they might begin reading it, this will actually become apparent to them.

It will very quickly be obvious that the Bible isn't an academic textbook. It doesn't provide us with information that encourages our speculation with information that is if you like simply theoretical.

But in actual fact we discover pretty quickly that it is practical. It is at the same time personal and in order that the response of the heart of the reader might be one of devotion, might be one of worship and one of obedience.

And that's why actually we've been helped in the singing of many of our songs by those who've written about the Bible in a way that we can sing these truths to ourselves and to one another.

For example, Brenton Brown's The Word of God is light in our darkness. It is hope for the hopeless. It is strong and true. The Word of God is strength for the weary. It is a shield for all who trust in you.

Now it's in that framework that we read our Bibles on our own on a daily basis. We gather sometimes in other groups throughout the week or in different groups here throughout the Lord's Day in order that we might be reminded of these things.

That our response to Scripture is one where we find ourselves declaring the goodness and kindness of God.

Last time in these four six verses we considered how it was that David marveled not just that God is omniscient, that is that God knows everything, but the real marvel is that he says God knows me.

In fact, as we read it together, we realized that God knows him and knows you and me better than we know ourselves. If your Bible is open, you notice that little phrase in the second half of verse five about God laying his hand upon him.

I don't know about you, but part of my reason for being in Psalm 139, I suppose, is that I just can't hardly let go of David and second Samuel.

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