I reckon God should sue Google for plagiarism. I was reading Psalm 139 tonight. After checking out Google Webmaster earlier and trying to get my head around Google’s ways of doing things, I was kind of impressed at what they do.
But, open up Psalm 139 and you get a glimpse at how God searches us and you just can’t but help see the similarities.
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me!” Psalm 139:1
Right off the bat, we see God’s Spirit doing exactly the same as the googlebot - searching and indexing all that I am. I love the fact that God is active in His search of me. He doesn’t just sit back but pursues His creation. He knows me better than I know myself. A good perspective to have when questioning the topic of unanswered prayer.
“You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.” Psalm 139:2
Here’s is where Google Analytics kicks in. As one of the statistics sites for my blog, Analytics knows everything - neatly tucked away in daily stats. God is the same. It’s like His Spirit places a little snippet of code into my being and through it, He knows everything I do and even understands my thoughts - from afar - wireless at it’s best!
“You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.” Psalm 139:3
Google knows all the incoming and outgoing links and clicks from my blog - all the pathways to my blog and the journey people take as a result of interacting my with blog. God does the same. He looks at the past and how I got to be at the place I am now. And He knows the future - my outgoing links and directions. Love that about Him. He knows what I will be doing in 5 minutes, 5 days and 5 years. Google only wishes it had such a technology!
“Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.” Psalm 139:4-6
Here’s where Google’s R&D team is scratching it’s head. How on earth will they know my future posts and links? Yet God knows the content of my next post just as He knows what happens next week in my life. God takes control of my past and my future and then places His hand on me in the present and guides me. Like King David, this LayGuy is also boggled as to how this happens and the implications of it.
Psalm 139 goes on and visits a number of areas - including the classical pro life statement of humans being “fearfully and wonderfully made”. Check it out when you get a chance. Great Psalm.
Back to the plagiarism case God can have against Google…
Isn’t it a wonderful thing to know that we are pursued to be known by the God of the universe? Google can try hard and does a great job at knowing our blogs. But God knows our past, present and future. He looks at our physical and spiritual realities and has indexed every word, thought, event and decision in our lives. The ultimate “GodBot!”
These indexes are talked about in Revelation. They are recorded in “books.”
“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.” Rev 20:11
All of our lives have been indexed by the GodBot. It’s all there already as God is outside space and time. What we do tomorrow or in 5 years is already indexed in those books. This freaks me out!
But I’ve got my eye on that “another book” - the book of life. Through the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, a beautiful Java script piece of code was inserted into my life which points the GodBot to the “another book” instead of the indexed book.
Here it reads…
“It is finished.”
Thank You Jesus.
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