Two Will Do

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.  Psalm 139:2  NASB Understand– If God “knows” everything about me, then why do we also read, “You understand”?  Isn’t knowing and understanding pretty much the same thing?  As it turns out, in Hebrew these two ideas are different, and the difference is precisely…

Thought Police

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.  Psalm 139:2  NASB Thought– God knows it all, right?  He knows every thought you have, every fleeting desire, every inclination, every unvoiced declaration.  We all agree.  God knows us—perhaps better than we know ourselves.  After all, He is the omniscient external observer in…