Mike Kelly | February 13, 2022
“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.” Psalm 139.10
David knew his theology and rejoiced to put it to verse. His pen overflowed with odes to God’s glorious perfections and left a treasury of choral divinity that’s delighted us for ages. This Psalm is no exception, but its theology overwhelmed the poet when David’s study of God revealed that God studied him first. By his grace and your training, you too know God. But how well do you know you? Not as well as he does. Surely, you’ve mistaken what would make a person like you happy, but God never does because he knows that the only person like you is you.
…let your theology become personal and remember that God is better at your happiness than you are because he knows you better than you know yourself.
He’s perfectly well acquainted with you and has designed all your days, especially your Sundays—whether tragic or triumphant—to prepare you to discover what he knows is best for you. Consider then the mind of God and marvel. Whatever comes of your ministry today or after, let your theology become personal and remember that God is better at your happiness than you are because he knows you better than you know yourself.
