WHY WE DO THIS?

Why do we do this?

PSALM 139:1-4

There is a theme throughout this Psalm of God being all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful,

and everywhere present. God knows us, and His greatest gift is to allow us to know Him.

1-4: "O LORD, you have searched me and you know mw. You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD." 

We wear our smiles and confident looks around our friends, work associates, and classmates. 

We post our pictures on social media, sharing our best times and shining moments for others to see. 

And all appears to be well with us. 

But God knows what we are holding onto inside, where no one else sees. 

The struggles with fear. The doubts. The insecurities. The thoughts that torment us and rob us of our joy and our peace. 

He knows it all. 

But better than that, He holds the answers to our questions and the solutions to our problems. 

He knows our going in and coming out. He knows our sitting down and our rising. He knows our thoughts before we think them, and our words before we speak them. 

He is just waiting for us to bring these things to Him and surrender them to Him so He can help us. 

For some reason we tend to hold tightly to those things that want to tear us down. We guard them like secret treasure when, in fact, they are like an enemy within, working to tear us down and destroy us.

Why do we do this?