Lamp of the Lord

Over the past few weeks one thing has come around time and again in my reading the Bible. I have found myself reading Scriptures that I have read probably hundreds of times in various forms, and yet, they seem brand new, and I find something else every time I return. One Scripture that I have been reading the past few weeks is Proverbs 20:27, "The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all His innermost parts." Ok fair enough...but consider...in the Hebrew spirit is literally breath. So, "The breath of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all His innermost parts." That presents a very real picture. To think that the every time we take a breath, the Lord is searching our hearts, our thoughts...and yet it is so true. Our breath is constant, it is our source of life...God knows our every innermost thought, constantly. He is always with us, always by our side, we can do nothing apart from Him. He is the Source and Giver of life, He is our All.


"Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind, but to the child of God it overflows with consolation. God is always thinking upon us, never turns aside His mind from us, has us always before His eyes; and this is precisely as we would have it, for it would be dreadul to exist for a moment beyond the observation of our heavenly Father. His thoughts are always tender, loving, wise, prudent, far-reaching, and they bring us countless benefits: hence it is a choice delight to remember them. The Lord always did think upon His people: hence their election and the covenant of grace by which their slavation is secured; He always will think upon them: hence their final perseverance by which they shall be brought safely to their final rest. In all our wanderings the watchful glance of the Eternal Watcher is evermore fixed upon us - we never roam beyond the Shepherd's eye. In our sorrows He observes us incessantly, and not a pang escapes Him; in our toils He marks all our weariness, and writes in His book all the struggles of His faithful ones. These thoughts of the Lord encompass us in all our paths, and penetrate the innermost region of our being. Not a nerve or tissue, valve or vessel, of our bodily organisation is uncared for; all the littles of our little world are thought upon by the great God. Dear reader, is this precious to you? Then hold to it. Never be led astray by those philosophic fools who preach up an impersonal God, and talk of self-existent, self-governing matter. The Lord liveth and thinketh upon us, this is a truth far too precious for us to be lightly robbed of it. The notice of a nobleman is valued so highly that he who has it counts his fortune made; but what is it to be thought of by the King of kings! If the Lord thinketh upon us, all is well, and we may rejoice evermore."
-Charles Hadden Spurgeon