Because He knows…
BRD REFLECTION 2025
Revelation 17 and Psalm 139 (NIV)
(Gerald Lim from Small Group Ministry)
READ:
My reflections are drawn from Psalm 139.
OBSERVE:
God knew me before I was conceived, and every day of my life was already written in His book before I drew my first breath. No thought I entertain nor motive I harbor is hidden from Him. And yet, I am told I am fearfully and wonderfully made. How can that be—someone so flawed, so finite?
Why would the Almighty give such attention to someone like me? I would be so wrong to believe this Psalm is about all my worth—it isn’t. It is a testament to the majesty of our God: Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent. That is why He sees and cares for even the smallest and seemingly most undeserving among His creation.
What an astonishing and humbling truth.
APPLY:
I did not grow up in a Christian home. God was absent from my early life—or so I thought. But looking back, though I excluded Him, He included me. The pivotal people and moments in my life’s journey were not random; they were deliberate acts of His grace, shaping me for His purposes.
So how should I respond to an all-knowing God, even when I try to hide behind my pride, accomplishments, and self-gratifying pursuits? Before Him, there is no room for performance or pretense. I must come just as I am—honest, unguarded and surrendered. I must learn to walk in step with the plan He lovingly crafted before I even existed.
When life brings anxiety and hardship, I need to remember they are fleeting trials—not meant to crush me, but to draw me closer to Him.
DO:
I will:
- Pray and live with a deep awareness of God’s all-knowing nature—being honest about my feelings and intentions.
- Receive life’s challenges not with passive resignation, but with active trust in God’s sovereign hand.
- Humbly seek God’s correction and forgiveness, recognizing that I am a work in progress, in need of His continual transformative grace.
PRAY:
Thank You Lord for inviting me to come before You as I am. Help me to walk with You in working out my salvation with reverence, trusting in Your guidance every step of the way as the author of my life. Let me not be anxious about anything but to trust in Your sovereignty over all circumstances.
Where I have fallen short and strayed from You, may I take the posture of King David, and pray that You would:
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
(Psalm 139: 23-24)
I pray and commit this prayer into the Your hands.
Amen.
