The world's current population is over 8 billion people. That's a lot of people out in the world.
As we were out this weekend, I wondered how it is possible that God can know me personally out of billions of people? I don't understand it. How does God keep track of everyone? How is it possible that He even cares about what I do? Honestly, in the grand scheme of things, I'm not important nor do I stand out in the crowd to even be noticed.
But, God DOES know us individually. Did you know that God knows us in some much detail that He actually knows each number of our hair? (Luke 12:7)
How is this even possible? How can we even begin to explain God? If we could, then WE would be God.
God's ability to know us personally can only be explained that God is not human. He created humans in His image but He is all-powerful, all-knowing and present everywhere at the same time. Since He created us, He knows how we work and how we think. There is no way that we can be able to comprehend how He does it.
It's nice to know that God knows us. We are not lost in a crowd. He knows everyone in the crowd and even our very thoughts (which is a bit scary right?).
The following passage in Psalm 139:1-16 gives us a good description of how well God knows us:
get all the facts firsthand.
I’m an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
I’m never out of your sight.
You know everything I’m going to say
before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you’re there,
then up ahead and you’re there, too—
your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderful—
I can’t take it all in!
Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.
I feel a lot better now in knowing that God actually does know me and cares about me even in a world of billions.
