Aunt Jenny had been painting a picture all morning. It was an oil painting of the barn, lake and woods which she could see from her living-room window. The picture was about half finished as she put her brushes away to stop for lunch. As she stood back to study the picture, her little niece, Ann, burst through the kitchen door. Running into the living room, Ann saw Aunt Jenny looking at the picture. She stopped and looked at it, too, and said, “What a pretty sky, Aunt Jenny. Are you going to put God in it?”
Aunt Jenny did not expect that question, so she asked, “What do you mean, Ann?”
“Well,” answered Ann, “if God lives up above the sky, shouldn’t you put Him in your sky picture?”
Ann did not know what David said about God in Psalms 139. David said that God is everywhere! He said, God is before me and behind me, He is above me and beneath me. How can I run away from Him? If I rise up to heaven, He is there. If I go down ever so deep, He is there. Even the darkness cannot hide me, because darkness and light are both the same to God.
Yes, David found out that God is everywhere! He saw Him when he woke up and in everything he did during the day. So David just cried to the Lord and said, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalms 139:23,2423Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23‑24).
I hope Aunt Jenny and Ann make the big discovery that David made. And I hope that you do, too.
ML-08/15/1982