Lord, You Know Me

January 15, 1999

Dear Friends,

Valerie, is my best friend. I met her almost fifteen years ago at a seminar. After the seminar adjourned, we talked at length. Finally, since I had to feed my young son, I invited her to my apartment for dinner. We talked well into the night. When I tell this story, I always say: When I went into my apartment, she went into my apartment. When I went into my kitchen, she went into my kitchen. When I went into the my refrigerator, she went into my refrigerator - and we’ve been best friends ever since.

Valerie and I have been there for each other through the ups and downs of our lives. We have rejoiced together, cried together, grown together. She and her husband, Rob and their little boy, "Zander" (when he begin to talk that was the best he could do with "Alexander") drove several hundred miles to celebrate my son’s high school graduation. One of the best things about my best friend Valerie, is that she knows me . . . she knows me better than most people. I don’t have to explain much to her, she understands. I thank God for her friendship, her love and understanding.

And yet . . . I know that there is Someone who knows me even better than Valerie does.

Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord."

(Psalm 139: 1- 4 New International Version)

God knows me. He knows all of us. Because He is omniscient, there is nothing about us that He does not know . . . He knows us so intimately that He has numbered the hairs on our heads (cf. Matthew 10:30). No matter what is happening in our lives, God knows and understands. Not only that, He cares. Because He is God - because He is sovereign - There is no situation that God cannot see us through. He is "able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think - infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams . . . (Ephesians 3:20 Amplified Version)."

In the Master’s Love,

The Preacher,

Rev. BWilliamsWaters