DIVINE INVESTIGATION & LEADING

DIVINE INVESTIGATION & LEADING

"Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it" Psa. 139:6

In its essential burden, this is the greatest song in literature. What that burden is, is at once revealed if the opening declaration and the closing prayer be brought together: "O Jehovah, Thou hast searched me and known me"; "Search me, O God, and know my heart." Here was a singer who had been brought to a consciousness of GOD'S ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND FINAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIS LIFE; and who found such satisfaction in the tremendous discovery, that after setting it forth in a song of rare beauty, he could only end by praying for the CONTINUATION OF THAT SEARCHING of his life by God. I have emphasized these words because they are central as a revelation of the discovery which the revelation of God's knowledge of him had brought to this man. When he said, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it," he was not referring to the OMNISCIENCE OF GOD in the abstract, but rather to God's knowledge of himself. It is the highest discovery, through which man escapes from himself to God. The ultimate word of Greek philosophy, "Man, know thyself," was really valuable because it brought man face to face with the IMPOSSIBLE. This is what the Hebrew singer had discovered. He did not know himself, nor could he. But God knew him, with COMPLETE FINALITY. To realize that, is to be driven to yield self-up to the DIVINE INVESTIGATION, in order to be set in the way everlasting. That is a great hour, when the soul realizes its IGNORANCE OF ITSELF, in the light of the Divine knowledge. It is the hour when the way of life is found to be that of DIVINE LEADING.