Well, today we go to Grand Thoughts number 8. Grand Thoughts number 8. If you have your Bible, I hope you do, you'll turn to verse 57, and the letter today is Cheth, if I'm saying it right. Cheth. I've noticed that in some versions, and on some of the places I've looked on the web, They have heth, H-E-T-H, instead of the cheth. But I believe the Hebrew proper wording for it is cheth. How be it that the Hebrews didn't use any vowels at all, it might show up as C-H-T-H. But anyway, verse 57, here we go. Thou art my portion, O Lord. I have said that I would keep thy words. Verse 58, I entreated thy favor with my whole heart. Be merciful unto me according to thy word. Verse 59, I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. Verse number 60, I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments. Verse 61, the bands of the wicked have robbed me, but I have not forgotten thy law. Verse 62, at midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. Verse 63, I am a companion of all them that fear thee and of them that keep thy precepts. Verse 64, the earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy, teach me thy statuettes. Now you may be wondering why I announced each verse number as I read through this. The reason why is seven of these verses are individual thoughts as such. The only one that isn't an individual thought but is coupled with verse 59 is verse 60. Verse 59 and verse 60 link together as one thought. David says, I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments. So, here we are at Grand Thoughts number 8, the 8th stanza. Now, if you remember last week in stanza 7, we saw that the militant David had become the humble David. David having moved from attempting to provoke the Lord to praising the Lord, from provocation to adoration, if you will. This he did, becoming and knowing that if God was going to answer any of his requests, David must temper his aggressiveness with humbleness, thus the humble David. By the way, which is the only way to approach the throne of grace boldly. Remember that. Yes, God is our Father and a good Father at that. One that has loved His children from before the foundation of the world and loves them even now and for eternity with a deep and abiding love. but He is also absolutely holy, sovereign, and impeccable above everyone and everything, He being the Creator by Jesus Christ of it all. And this David had learned, and now had humbly prostrated himself in the dust, as it were, verse 25, but did so boldly at the throne of grace spiritually in his prayer. And God did answer his prayer as we saw in verse 49 where David had received the Lord's word and had began reflecting and meditating upon God's word. As we see that first, David began to have hope, verse 49. Hope that set David's life in eternal surety that the God of all grace, who had called him unto his eternal glory, by David's Messiah to come, the Lord Jesus Christ, so that even in a multitude of afflictions, God would make David perfect, establish him, strengthen him, and settle him which Peter uses in 1 Peter 5, 10 and Dennis Devotion last Wednesday night read, but certainly for David, ended up being for him a grand hope before God. Secondly, it was evident by verse 50 that God had answered David's prayer, for David did find comfort in his affliction. The Lord's Word had quickened David, that is, made him alive even amidst the worst of his afflictions. And you too, beloved, listen to me. As the old song proclaims, you can only go to the Lord. And we sing that song at church. Where could I go but to the Lord? That's what David did. And David found comfort. And if David found it, certainly you can too. David had indeed been established, that is, set firm, if you will, in the power of the Lord, and from that came hope, from that came comfort. Then thirdly, verse 51, David found strength in the Lord's word, for when his enemies mocked him, ridiculed him, and held him in great disrespect, David still held on to the Lord's word, evidenced here in verse 51 by David saying that he had not declined from the Lord's law. Then fourthly, last week I showed you that David also found satisfaction in the Lord's judgments of old. That is the history of the Lord's past performances, verse 52. And then fifthly, verse 53, David found staying power in the Lord's word. The Lord's word was now established in him. And though the wicked might horrifically forsake the Lord's law, David says in verse 54, that the Lord's statuettes had become his songs in the house of his pilgrimage. That means he was absolutely singing about the Lord all the time because of the Lord's greatness. The Lord's statuettes had become his life. to the degree that they had become the song of his heart and mind, and were steadfastly upon his lips. So great was the Lord's word in his heart and mind that David says that he even, verse 55, remembers thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law." David says, I have kept thy law because I even remember you in the night. And as I told you last week, I think that that means that the Lord was even in his dreams, established by the fact that David said that even if he woke up in the night, for whatever reason, he had the Lord on his mind. So the Lord evidently has answered David's prayer because David said, verse 56, this he had because he had kept the Lord's precepts. Basically, David had been submerged and is submerged in the Lord's Word. And now he was settled in the Lord's Word. David's pleadings with the Lord to, verse 33, teach him the way of the Lord's statutes, and verse 34, give him understanding of the Lord's law, the Lord had evidently done. David appears now to be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, Psalm 1, his delight being in the law of the Lord. David now loves the Word of God. David now understands the way of God, making him absolutely receptive to the will of God. That's what happens when you love the Word of God. That's what happens when you begin to understand the way of God. That makes you more receptive to the will of God. David tells us in the seventh stanza that in the Lord's law doth he meditate day and night, meaning that he was now faithfully reading the Word of the Lord, passionately studying the Word of the Lord, and was now beautifully following the Word of the Lord, which now, by everything we have read thus far, has moved the humble David to the grateful David. Now in this the eighth stanza, verses 57 through 64, the further evidence that God had answered David's prayer is now seen by the actions of God's Holy Spirit that had and was instructing David to faithfully read the Word of the Lord, that is, every day. to passionately study the Word of the Lord when he did read it every day, and certainly to beautifully follow the Word of the Lord from what he read and studied. You know, that's what the Holy Spirit does. Jesus says He'll show you things to come. He'll be with you and in you. And as David did this, we find three things for which David had become extremely grateful. And friends, listen very carefully. This is, or these are, three things for which you as a believer should be extremely grateful as well. And as we go through this list of three, I hope you will take it to heart and you will be grateful. If you've not been in the past, you will be grateful now, please. So what are the three things that we find about David here in stanza number eight? Well, number one, David is grateful for the Lord's omnipotence. Let me say it like this, omnipotence, which means God's all-powerfulness. Look at verse 57, and you ought to underline at least these first six words, Thou art my portion, O Lord. David says, by that reason I have said that I would keep thy words. Now having been quickened, verse 50, and y'all know what that means, quickened, having been made alive to realize and find the hope and comfort of the Lord in his many afflictions, verse 51, David found strength in the Lord's word, for when his enemies mocked him, ridiculed and held him in disrespect, David understood the Lord's omnipotence, His all-powerfulness, and as a result of understanding that the Lord was omnipotent, David was now holding on to this fact firmly. Evidenced in verse 51 by David said that he had not declined from the Lord's law. If God be who He says He is and that is all-powerful, Then David says, I'm gonna hold on to him no matter what. Lord, you are my portion, verse 57. It was David that declared in Psalm 27, turn there, Psalm 27. Now wait a second, hold your finger on 119, we're coming back, we'll be going back and forth. But look at Psalm 127. 27, not 127, Psalm 27. It was David that declared in Psalm 27, verses one through three. that the Lord was his light and his salvation. Then David asked in that verse, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? Can you see in verse one of Psalm 27 how David had gotten hold of the Lord's omnipotence? Verse David had meditated about how God dealt with his enemies, and had and would deal with David's enemies. David saw that when trouble came, the Lord had never failed in His great power to overwhelm all enemies. Thus David wrote in Psalm 27 too, that when the wicked, even mine, or his enemies and his foes came upon him to eat up his flesh, they stumbled and fell. That's how God dealt with His enemies. Spurgeon wrote in his Treasury of David that this was literally true in the case of our Lord in Gethsemane. When those who came to take Him fell backwards and fell to the ground, then here was that prophetic representative of all wrestling believers who, rising from their knees, shall by the power of faith throw their foes upon their faces, says Spurgeon, by holding on to the omnipotence of God, believing in his all-powerfulness, no matter how great the host of these that would come against you, hey, that came against David, they failed. Now, and in David's present, God had dealt them all a death blow. Thus David thinks and prays in Psalm 27 3, Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should writhe against me, in this will I be confident." Confident in God's omnipotence. David is grateful for God's omnipotence. God is bringing it back to his mind. The Holy Spirit is bringing it back to his mind. Oh me, Holy Spirit, bring it to our minds continually. We have nothing to fear. One can only think about how God had empowered David to kill lions and bears that would have killed David's father's flocks. But God was on the scene. Or how about God had empowered David to stand against Goliath and summarily kill that giant whom David said had defied the Lord God and the armies of Israel. This is the same omnipotence Paul speaks of in Ephesians 3.20. You don't have to turn there, but there, this is what we read. Now unto Him, that is God, that is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. understanding the fact by Ephesians 119 about the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe according to the working of His mighty power. Oh my goodness, David is grateful for the Lord's omnipotence. Oh, are you grateful today, friends? I hope you are. Think about the Lord's omnipotence every day before you start each day. He is powerfully in control. What can man do to you, do to us? What can the demons of hell do to us? The demons can only do to us what God will allow them to do. All they can do is run to the end of their chain of bark we're allowed. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. You are invincible because He is all-powerful and David is grateful for that. He's come to know that, lock, stock and barrel. Secondly, David was grateful for the Lord's omniscience. That means he was grateful for the Lord's all-knowingness. Seeing that God knows everything and certainly everything about David, And David understood it, and now by his understanding of the Lord's Word, David sees this omniscience. And in verse 58, David says that he entreated thy favor with my whole heart. And then when he entreated his favor with his whole heart, David says in verse 58, Be merciful unto me according to thy word. Now that's strange that he would say now in Psalm 119 verse 58, I entreated thy favor with my whole heart, and then there's a colon, and then David says, be merciful unto me according to thy word. That's strange. But oh, when you look at this real close, this is David repenting. Why is he repenting? And what has this got to do with God's omniscience and David's gratefulness for it? Well, first look at verses 59 and 60. David says, I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. Verse 60, he says, I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments. That's words of repentance. David became extremely alert that God sees all and knows all, and certainly no one can hide anything from God. God has known all things there is to know from eternity, and He knows all things eternally. Remember, David could not hide his sin with Bathsheba. God sent Nathan the prophet to David to tell him so. Look in God's Word and find that all sin is against the Lord, the Lord only. David understood that all that God knew and saw caused God to be justified when He spoke and clear when He judged the sins of His people. When David wrote in Psalm 51 5 that he was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me, David was acknowledging his inherent depravity from the original sin from which he was born in. David also was acknowledging that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God as he alludes to how from conception all men are vile sinners, and it's true. All men come into the world as sinner because of the fall of their father Adam. Then thirdly, David acknowledges these things. and says that this did not excuse him from his sin, but rather reminded him of how wicked was his flesh. So when David says in verse 59 that he thought on his ways, David is saying here, when I thought on my ways, I was reminded of how wicked my flesh is. Look over at Psalm 51. Let go of Psalm 27 and go to Psalm 51 with me. I'll wait a second here. You need to see this. Psalm 51. I'm trying to stay predominantly in Psalms today so you won't have far to run as you look up these scriptures. But in Psalm 51, verse 6, David exclaims, Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts. And in the hidden part, thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Now, upon that, David lets out this cry in verse 9 of that same psalm. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. If God desires truth in the inward parts, oh my goodness, what am I going to do? My sins are in my inward parts. That depravity that is nature to us, natural to us, needs to be dealt with. So David says in verse 9, blot out all mine iniquities. And then in verse 10 he says, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Well, that happens when you're saved. When the Lord comes on you in regeneration and you're born again, He gives you a new heart and renews a right spirit within you. Now David is talking about his time. And so as a result, David cries out in verse 11, Don't cast me away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. David's had a real view of himself. And boy, he knows that God being omniscient sees all. So back to Psalm 119, as soon as David was sensible of his duty to correct this, he immediately complied with it. Though verse 61 says the bands of the wicked, that is the demons, had robbed him, meaning the devils of hell had blinded him to the Lord's omniscience, or God's all-seeing eye, Yet David had not forgotten God's law. He's going to stay with God no matter what because he knew God would do right. So David says in verse 62, Psalm 119, At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. Because he knows God has seen all, even in him. It really didn't matter what time of the day David gave thanks. For God sees all and knows all all the time. We ought to be thankful that he does. That David says midnight here means that whenever the need arises, he would faithfully repent, respect, and recompense the Lord for his sure mercies. Because David knew that God knows everything. Now some of you might say, well, why would he be grateful for that, Brother Darrell? Well, that kind of knowledge, folks, will keep you on the straight and narrow. If you ever get it in your heart and mind that God sees all like you should, and realize God has known all things for all time, everything about you, all ways He's known it, and how He even now could kill you for your sins if He so desired, ought to make you fear the Lord, and try your best to stay on the straight and narrow. The knowledge of that omnipotence should make you understand that God sees you more clearly and follows you more nearly than you do Him. And certainly it shows us that He loves us more dearly because if His eye is on the sparrow, you know He watches over you. But you need to get that song out of church and sing it. His eye is on the sparrow. And I know He watches me. I sing because I'm happy. I sing because I'm free. His eye is on the sparrow. And I know He watches me. And grand blessing, folks. He sees your enemies as well. They ain't gonna get away with anything. Hey, Debbie Hefley, tell the Blairs out there, hey listen, God sees all, God knows all. This ain't gonna last. He will take care of your afflictions. Then thirdly and lastly, David is grateful for the Lord's omnipresence. That means God being with us all the time. We've seen, first of all, His omnipotence, His all-powerfulness. We've seen His omniscience, His all-knowingness. Then we see His omnipresence, His all-the-time being where we are and everywhere at once. Look at verse 63 and 64 of Psalm 119. I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts. Verse 64 now, The earth, O Lord, is full of Thy mercy. Why? Because He's omnipresent. And so David says, Teach me Thy statuettes. Now folks, I want to tell you, it is a knowledge of the Lord's omnipresence that you'll find true joy and peace. Jesus told us in John 14 verses 16 and 17 that he would pray to the Father And He would give us another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because they see it, the world does not see the Holy Spirit, neither do they know Him. But Jesus says you will know Him for He will dwell with you and shall be in you. My friends, that is how the Lord is omnipresent in us. That divine blessing is given to all that believe in Christ Jesus. These are they that fear the Lord through all the generations of time until now and will continue to do so until the Lord wraps His big ball up in one package and destroys it. These are they that David is speaking of in verse 63. David says that he's a companion of all them that fear thee. He said that same group, that same club, that same church, and of them that keep thy precepts. Kind of like the Providence Baptist Church, that's who we are. We're a companion to each other because we fear the Lord, because we keep his precepts. Now, why David is truly grateful for the Lord's omnipresence, which is His Holy Spirit in us, and in all the world for that matter, is verse 64, where David tells us that because of the Lord's omnipresence, the Lord is working out the counsel of His will, that is His divine providence, personally in us, with us. So God is omnipresent in his divine providence and he's working out that providence up close and personal. Man, I get just goosebumps all over me to know that God is working out his providence up close and personal with me. Remember, providence is defined as divine guidance or care. It's also defined as God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny. Providence is the power of God in His omnipresence, in His omnipotence, in His omniscience by which He sustains and guides all a human destiny. Nothing is out of His control, out of His hand, out of His eyes. That is what God is doing for us today, beloved. The Westminster Shorter Catechism on question 11 gives this understanding of divine providence, and I quote, God's work of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing of all of His creatures and all their actions, unquote. If you understand this, then you know that this is the very essence of God's sovereignty as it can be known in the affairs of this world. In the Geneva Bible, we are told on page 957 in a little insert on the Doctrine of Providence that the Doctrine of Providence of God teaches us that we are never in the grip of blind fortune, luck, chance or fate. Let me say that again. The Geneva Bible says the doctrine of the providence of God teaches us that we are never, let me say it again, that we are never in the grip of blind fortune, luck, chance, or fate. God and blind fortune cannot coexist. God and luck cannot coexist. God and chance cannot exist. God and fate cannot exist because there's no such thing as blind fortune, luck, chance, or fate. God rules and reigns over all. It is God in His sovereignty that is preserving and governing the totality of all things, be they human or otherwise, and He's doing so up close. He's not personal. He's not standing off to the side. He's not just unconcerned over there, picking his teeth with a toothpick, just waiting for things to happen. No, no, no, there is no such thing as blind fortune, luck, chance, or fate. And that should thrill your soul. It ought to throw you clean down to your shoelaces. being more specific with the doctrine. And as it pertains to His elect children, this should make you utterly ecstatic. Listen and see if this doesn't even add more thrill. God is preserving and governing all His creation for His children's exclusive benefit as He exclusively intends that they alone be with Him in eternity. Did you get that? Hey, wake up over there. Pay attention. Turn the TV off if you're looking at that while you're listening to me. God is preserving and governing all His creation for His children's exclusive benefit as He exclusively intends that they alone be with Him in eternity. And that fact had made David extremely grateful, as it should you! Think about that for a moment. God's personal, perfect, providential dealings are for you, saint! We find that that is true throughout the Word of God. He is doing this for us. David was thrilled, hey, literally overjoyed at what he had come to know about divine providence as it pertains to the omnipresence of God in his life, having come to see it through the lens of the written Word that he had heard and learned thus far. And as a result, he had come to know the strength of it by personal experience as God worked in and through his life. And when you fully begin to understand it for yourself, you will live in the strength of it, enjoying the grand knowledge that God is ultimately ruling and reigning, preserving and governing all things in your life for your life. that you might enjoy eternal life with him in glory. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. That's why you need to read your Bible daily. All scripture is saturated with this in truth. Thus it can be literally seen on nearly every page. Truly, the providence of God and him operating it omnipresently is the most comprehensive term in theology. And by the way, as one preacher once put it, good theology will explode a world of problems. You wanna get rid of all your problems and get yourself a good theology. And the best doctrine that you'll find, other than the doctrine of Jesus Christ, is the doctrine of God's divine providence, God's care of us. By the way, folks, God's divine providence is not a seat-in-the-pants operation, either. Oh, He just doesn't happen to see something to react. His divine providence was fully predestinated. Look over at Psalm 33 with me for just a little while. God's divine providence was fully predestinated. Over in Psalm 33, verse 4, David tells us, for the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done in truth. Now folks, look at that line, all his works are done, those words. That means that they've been accomplished beforehand. That is that they are predestinated. Oh, Job said over in Job 23, 14, For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with him. Let me say that again. You don't have to turn there. You might want to write it down. Job 23, verse 14, Job stated, For God performeth the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with him. That means divine providence. is already accomplished in God before the world ever was. And now the details of it are playing out in real time for you and I. God has set the details of His personal, perfect, providential dealings personally for us from before the foundations of the universe. Though men may think that they are masters and captains of their own life, fate, and eternity, and are able to do as they please when they please no matter what the Word of God declares, thinking that they can thwart the movements of God by their thinking, no one, I'll say it again, no one is able to perform providence for themselves or even intervene upon it. What God has determined is directed, defined, and will not delineate from God's stated purposes. If God did not provide for the maintenance and sustenance of mankind, they would all die by starvation, waste away, and summarily blow away into oblivion. God's divine providence is not reactive. It is determinative from before the foundations of the world. As Christ was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God to be crucified and slain, Acts 2.23, the entirety of divine providence delivered by the same determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God as well. As God preserves everything and governs everything, reigning and ruling of close and personal over it exclusively and exclusively for His elect people. Can you say praise the Lord? Author Pink once wrote and I quote, Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith, says Pink. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind faith. unbridled evil, man or devil, but the Lord God Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His eternal glory." I believe Arthur Pink had a handle on this thing. God's divine providence is also being accomplished as His predestined providence becomes processed. working to the good for them that love God, who are the called according to His purpose and purposes. This is what you and I are experiencing right now as the Lord works to bring us and many sons to glory. And this, by His divine providence, He has been doing from before there was a universe. This predestined perfect program is being perfectly performed by His unique process of divine perfect providence whereby in His perfect omnipotence and His perfect omniscience and perfectly omnipresent with us, God is working for us. Boy, that was a mouthful. I didn't think I'd get that all out. But now can you understand why David is so grateful? Looking there at Psalm 33, look at verse 5. David wrote, He loveth righteousness and judgment. God loveth righteousness and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. He's omnipresent. The thrice holy God's divine predestined personal perfect providence in process is being performed in perfect righteousness and judgment. No matter what the Lord has decided to do among all the affairs of men, the interactions of time and weather, terrestrial or celestial, it will all work out perfectly by His righteousness and judgment. He righteously judges all of His creation, all of its operations, all of its movements, and naturally, naturally, that would include all of us. According to Romans 2, 2, we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, says Paul. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord because the Lord is perfectly and impeccably good and judges forthrightly in His omnipresence. Everything He does by His divine providence is perfectly good, though it may appear to us sometimes as being bad and even chaotic. I mean, look around the world. It all seems bad and chaotic. It appears that the heathen in the world are doing all this stuff out there. But, oh folks, don't be blind to God and His operations. Everything is working by the counsel of His will. What He has foreordained, He turned to pass. Believe me. Believe me. The Apostle Paul says, all things work together for good unto them that love God, who are called according to his purpose. And we repeat that all the time. And what that means is by moment, by moment, by moment, by day in and day out, 24-7, 365, as the kids say, God is controlling all that, working it all out for our good. Look back there at Psalm 33 verse 8. Let me read this for you and we'll try to get out of here in just a moment. Verse 8, David wrote, let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spake and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught. That means nothing. He made the devices of the people of none effect. The devices of the people won't accomplish a thing. Verse 11, the counsel of the Lord standeth forever. The thoughts of his heart to all generations. And look at verse number 12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. That's us, folks. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance. Then verse 13, The Lord looketh down from heaven, or looketh from heaven. He beholdeth all the sons and men from the place of His habitation. He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. The Lord has an all-seeing eye, friends. He's omniscient. He sees all the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth at once. My goodness, verse 15 says, He fashioned their hearts alike. He considereth all their works. There's nothing that gets by Him. He's been involved from before the world began. I remind you, beloved, Proverbs 21, 1, the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. As the river is of water, God turneth it whither ever so ever he will. Therefore, there in Psalm 33, verse 16, there is no king saved by the multitude of a host or a great army. A mighty man is not delivered by much strength. No king or his army can stop the Lord's dealings upon the earth. Verse 17, Psalm 33, And a horse is a vain thing for safety, neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive and failing. Oh my goodness! There it is! That's why David is grateful for God's omnipotence, His omniscience, and His omnipresence. Which causes David to conclude in Psalm 33, that our soul waiteth for the Lord. Why do we wait for the Lord? Because He is our help and our shield. That's why. Verse 21, For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. That's what David was doing. And so he ends that psalm with, Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us according as we hope in thee. There's the three things David was grateful for. The Lord's omnipotence, His all-powerfulness, His omniscience, His all-knowingness, His omnipresence, always with us, up close, and personal. Oh, my friends! Oh, are you grateful for that? If you're not, oh, how you should be. What a great ending, this stanza number 8 that David gives us there when he says in verse 24, excuse me, verse 64, the earth, I can't even read now, the earth, oh Lord, is full of thy mercy." And David wants more. David wants a whole lot more. He says, teach me thy statutes. And that's what you want. Yes, that's what you want. Don't deny it. That's what you want. If you've not considered it, let me tell you, that's what you want. You want Him to teach you His statutes because in that is this grand knowledge. You can stand against your enemies. You can stand in every tribulation and affliction and boldly proclaim, my God is greater than all. Greater is he that is in you than he that's in the world. You can stand in God's omniscience knowing that God sees what's going on in your life. He sees what's going around in your life. He knows about your sorrows. He knows about your sicknesses. Oh, He knows it all. He sees. He isn't blind to your condition. He's not blind to your position. He sees. He knows. Believe Him. Trust Him. And certainly, oh, trust in God's omnipresence. He is as close as your hair breath. Oh my goodness, there He is. If we could pull down the supernatural curtain, oh my goodness, there He would be face to face with you. But as He is, He's in you. Oh, by the Holy Spirit, we have the Father, Son in there as well, operating the good pleasure of His will, His divine presence for His grand purposes and for us personally. My goodness. I'm so glad the Lord loves me more dearly, follows me more nearly, sees me more clearly than I do Him. Oh, how grateful I am that this is not left to my ability. I have none. This is not left to my faith. Oh, how little it is. This is not left to my being dutiful as a Christian. Oh, I'm telling you, I lack so much. but great is he that is promised. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh unto you. Can you live with Matthew 6.33? I believe you ought to, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness and all, all these things will be added unto you. Thank you, Lord, for your word today. How grand are your promises, and how great and magnanimous is your omniscience, your omnipotence, your omnipresence, personally with us, for us, in us. Providence is being carried out perfectly, personally for us. These things we say, and praise your name in it by Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen and Amen.