“You can’t handle the truth!” has become one of Hollywood’s most memorable lines. Jack Nicolson spits out the line with iconic disdain.
Well, sometimes the truth is indeed difficult to handle.
Sometimes the truth wounds deeply.
Sometimes the truth shatters relationships.
Sometimes the truth destroys reputations.
Sometimes the truth crushes trust.
Sometimes the truth exposes painful memories.
Sometimes the truth ignites anger.
Sometimes the truth releases a trap door to a bottomless pit of despair.
The writer of the Psalms admits that he can’t handle the truth. Well, actually he says that he can’t get a real grip on the knowledge of God. I guess that should be expected. After all, the knowledge of God is far too complex and mysterious for any mere human to fully handle.
But it is not the complexity of the truth that exasperates the Psalmist.
The sixth verse of Psalm 139 reads, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.” The King can’t handle the truth because it is simply too wonderful!
The knowledge of the dimensions of God’s personal interest in each of us is a truth that the Psalmist just could not get his head around.
What a God!
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