God Knows At All Times

In case you are ever wondering if God really knows where you are or if He even cares about what is going on in your life, I assure you, He does, to both questions. David wrote in Psalm 139, “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me, even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.” King David wrote this in a time when even he, “who was the apple of God’s eye”, was wondering if God knew where he was and knew the troubles he was facing. (I encourage you to read all of Psalm 139.) David realized that God knew exactly where he was and what circumstances he was going through at all times! In fact, there was no place where he could go that God wasn’t already there before he got there. Let me tell you a few incidents in my own life that bears this out. When I was a student at Baylor University, I traveled with a group of students who went to several European countries and cities. Everywhere we went, I could sense the Lord’s presence, and here I was many, many miles from my home in Texas, “God’s Country, you know.” On one occasion, as we were in Switzerland, in the city that was at the base of the Matterhorn, what a beautiful site that was, I was out walking the streets of this city, wondering just a bit if God had “followed me here”. I turned a corner and there in front of me was a statue of Christ, not a large one, not even as tall as I was, but a statue just the same. Nothing to worship, you understand, but just a sign of His presence. He knew. While in Florence, Italy, some of us attended a rather large Catholic Church, one in which there were rows of benches that ran from one side of the auditorium to the other. As Baptist students, we didn’t want to disturb the services so we sat in the very back. The priest was conducting the service in the language of his native tongue, Italian, and being non-Italian students, we couldn’t understand what he was saying, but we could sense the presence of the Lord anyway. He knew where we were. But the strangest situation of all, happened one night as we were preparing to roam about the streets of this particular city, I don’t even remember which city we were in, one more welcoming to a bunch of American students who were in a strange land, I think it might have been in Denmark. However, that particular night I was on my own in our hotel room. Normally I had a roommate, but one of the guy’s parents had traveled to this particular country and he had gone to spend a couple of days with them, so here I was, all alone, a million miles away from home. Now, Europe is a lot more open to moral, or should I say, immoral ways than we are here in America. To pass by a theater, the pictures on the marques were not shy at all in showing total nudity. Well, I felt the devil giving it his best as I prepared to go out, and I was praying for God to really show Himself strong for me so that I would not fall to any of Satan’s ways. Now folks, I’m not kidding you when I tell you that as I was getting ready, I turned on the radio to see what music I could get, and out of that speaker, in bagpipes mind you, came the familiar hymn, “Amazing Grace”! Yes sir, God knew where I was. He was aware of what my struggle was, and He answered my prayer in a way that I would never have thought to hear! He knew. He was there. So if you ever feel like God has left you all alone to struggle on your own, let me assure you, and let His Word assure you that you are never alone. He is there, and He knows what is going on. Comforting, isn’t it?