O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.

David rightly says that he "cannot attain it," meaning he cannot conclude it by himself neither can he fully appreciate it.

God has searched each one of us. Because of this, He knows everything there is to know about us including the fact that before any word is actually on our lips to be spoken, God knows what that word will be.

God knows when we will lie down to sleep and when we will rise in the morning. He knows the path that we will take each day - what we will do, what we will think and what we will say. God knows us so well, better than we can ever fully know ourselves.

This Almighty God has deigned to stoop to us so that we might have what only He can provide - salvation and a relationship with Him.

Yet too often, we are consumed with our own plans, our own wants and our own likes. We find less and less time for God. But God always has time for us. In fact, He wants to share life with us.

Memorizing and meditating on Psalm 139 and other sections of Scripture help us to appreciate exactly how big God is as Creator not only of the universe but of each one of us. God wants us to dwell on His character and traits in order to place ourselves in the proper perspective. That proper perspective involves a growing fear of the LORD.

As I've said before, this fear of the LORD is not a fear of judgment or God's wrath for the Christian. The fear that we should have in an ever-growing state is one of profound, reverential awe toward the Creator of all things.

This is what Job had at the beginning of the book of Job, where we read in Job 1 and 8 that Job was blameless, upright and that he shunned evil and feared the LORD. Yet, he was put through a great deal that few of us would be able to remain afloat under. Job and his friends all had their opinions about why Job was suffering but they all missed the mark. Elihu, the youngest, who spoke after the others had finished speaking was actually closest to the truth.

When God finally began responding to Job in Job 38, it is interesting to note that God never told Job why God had allowed Job to suffer. God simply asked Job many pointed and rhetorical questions.

The result? Job considered himself vile and said so. He also said that he would put his hand over his mouth to keep from saying anything at all.

Though Job feared the Lord at the beginning of the book, it is very clear that he learned to fear the LORD to a much greater degree.

Fear of the LORD breeds many things including humility of character. This is something we can never be enough of in this life.