In Psalms, chapter hundred and thirty-nine, verses one through six, God knows all our inward thoughts, motives, desires, and fears, as well as our inward habits and actions. He knows all we do from the beginning of the day to its end. In everything we do, He encircles us with His care and lays His hand of favor upon our heads, as in verse five. “Thou hast beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me.” For believers, it is a good habit to ask the Lord to guide our path before going outside so that it will go according to His will.
The theme title, “Thou hast known me,” under the Prayer of a Believing Heart section, is all about God knowing us. However, the subject matter could also be our knowing God. After all, people who accept salvation are saved from this fallen world: “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection,” as in the beginning of Philippians three, verse ten.
In John ten, verse fourteen, Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.” However, many believers hear about God but do not know Him personally. “I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me,” as in Isaiah forty-five, verse five. Jesus said to the religious leaders in John eight, verse fifty-five, “Yet ye have not known Him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.”
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.