It’s encouraging.  It’s challenging.  It’s motivating.  It’s comforting.  And it can be convicting.  But most of all, according to King David, it’s mind-boggling.  He says so as he describes the truth of Psalm 139:1-5.  Here’s how it goes: “O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me.  Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.  For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether.  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.”  And then he says in verse 6, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”  Definitely mind-boggling.  The truth of the ever-present, all-knowing God – we believe it, but how can we fully understand it?  But we can know that in the valley of trials, it encourages us.  In facing obstacles, it challenges and motivates us.  In times of loneliness, it comforts us.  And in moments of temptation and yielding to that temptation, it convicts us.  So, wherever you are in your walk with the Lord today, read that passage, meditate on its powerful truth, and embrace this: the Lord knows and He is there, and that’s all you and I really need.