"A Long Time Ago"

"Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising: thou understandest my thought afar off." (Psalms 139:2)

  To fully understand what is being said, we must recognize the complexity of what it means to be someone that is chosen by God for His purposes; it doesn't just happen overnight! Dare I say this, but in the tapestry God is painting, there are no mistakes and He does not rewrite His-Story! To start, the word "thought" is a noun, which describes, not the action of the mind, or even the doings of what goes on in it; it is a thing, something that is already established: if you want to bet more specific, it actually is a person, as in, a friend or companion. If you really want to get crazy into it, then you could almost portray it as a lover; much as would be the case if you had someone you deeply loved and you looked forward to the time you would be together: knowing everything that you could possibly know about them, even knowing the experiences that you would share together, and looking forward to actually living them out. I know it sounds crazy, but in the way this is portrayed, that is pretty much what is being said; just be thankful and accept it! These next three verses might be a little hard to swallow; but in the mind of God, there is nothing He does not know, way before it happens, and a long way off from when it happens. In other words, your "downsitting and uprising" have been painted on that tapestry a long time ago! Secondly, that word, "understandest," is a word that means to distinguish or to separate; much as be the case if you could focus in on someones goodness and not concern yourself with their badness; if that was even humanly possible! Thank's be to God, He is more than able to do what we cannot! Which causes us to wonder, how this craziness started in the first place? Was I actually saved in God's mind long before I was even conceived in my mother's womb? God already knew what would happen, but I needed to live it out! The Editor of my Bible puts it in this light, saying, "God merely conducted an experiment with Abraham to prove that the result would be the same every time, much as a physics professor knows the outcome of the same experiment year after year. Still it must be demonstrated." I had a really crazy thought yesterday thinking about myself as the "Whosoever" in Jesus' statement of Matthew 5:28; realizing that I am! It is hard not to think of a time in my life that it did not happen. Maybe it was so common a thought, I merely brushed it aside and never concerned myself with it; in my own mind, maybe I thought I was paying them a complement without them even knowing. Regardless of what the heck I was toying with in that thought yesterday, it came to the point of being a Whosoever,  and how thankful that I am, His whosoever...

"And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father. And the were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all these things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples, Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying. Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great."" (Luke 9:42-48)