The God knows you better than you know yourself. Do you find his intimate knowledge of you

comforting or frightening? We'll think this through together on Truth for Life weekend as we consider

King David's response to our all-knowing God.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Psalm 139 today, but he begins in Psalm 135,

addressing the eternal, all-knowing nature of God.

Psalm 135. Let's just look at verse 13. Your name, O Lord, endures forever. Your renown, O Lord, throughout all the ages. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, all the rest, Ruth, all the way through. Peter, James, John, Eric Little,

Jim Elliott, Helen Rosevere, all the way through. For the Lord will vindicate his people

and have compassion on his servants. And then look at what he says in verse 15. The idols of the nations are silver and gold. The work of human hands. They have mouths,

but don't speak. They have eyes, but don't see. They have ears, but they don't hear.

Nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. So do all who trust in them. So the contrast is vast. And what he is pointing out, as he goes through

and writes in this way, is the absurdity, and it is an absurdity, for men and women to seek

ultimate answers from substitute gods. But that's what we do. You see, when we turn away from

God as He has made himself known, we don't trust in nothing, we trust in all kinds of things,

because we are made in order to worship, to worship the true and living God. And when the people's turn back, and

when they turn aside, where do they end up? The ironsmith makes his peace. The carpenter makes his peace.

He shapes it into a figure of a man with the beauty of a man to dwell in a house.

He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and he lets it grow strong

among the trees of the forest.

He plants a cedar, the rain nourishes it.

Then it becomes fuel.

He takes a part of it and warms himself.

He kindles a fire.

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