Good evening.

One of my favorite Christian songs is one written by Rich Mullins and it is sang (or sung) by Amy Grant.  The name of it is “Nothing Is Beyond You.”  This song is taken directly from Psalm 139.  The psalmist is describing how big God and His reach are.  The lyrics are as follows:

Where could I go
Where could I run
Even if I found the strength to fly

And if I rose on the wings of the dawn
And crashed through the corner of the sky

If I sailed past the edge of the sea
Even if I made my bed in Hell, still there you would find me

Chorus

Cause nothing is beyond You
You stand beyond the reach
Of our vain imaginations,
Our misguided piety
The heavens stretch to hold You
And deep cries out to deep
Sayin’ that nothing is beyond You
Nothing is beyond You
Time can not contain You
You fill eternity
Sin can never stain You
Death has lost its sting
And I can not explain the way
You came to love me
Except to say nothing is beyond You
Nothing is beyond You

If I should shrink back from the light
If I could sink into the dark

If I take cover and I close my eyes
Even then, You would see my heart

And you’d cut through all my pain and rage
The darkness is not dark to You and night’s as bright as day

Chorus

Nothing is beyond You

According to the Bible, there is nowhere we could go to escape God’s sight or His reach.  When the psalmist wrote this, he was describing the geographical extremes that were known at the time.  He was saying that if he went as far East as he could go; “If I rose on the wings of the dawn and crashed through the corner of the sky” (in the direction of the Sun and up through the sky) or if he went as far West as he could go; “If I sailed past the edge of the sea” (the Mediterranean Sea was the farthest known part of the world.)  And then he drops the bomb that he could not even travel to the depths of Hell and escape God’s reach.

The chorus describes God’s size and strength.  Many extremes are used and my favorite is “deep cries out to deep.”  When you think about that, it’s really deep.  Get it?

When you accept this truth that God is everywhere and there is nowhere that He is not, it’s a very comforting feeling.  You realize that nothing you do ever takes God by surprise.  But guess what?  He loves us anyway with a love that we cannot possibly imagine.  I love the fact that no matter where I go or what I’m doing, that God is always there just waiting for me to call to Him.