As human beings we are very complex creatures. We have a mixture of good and evil thoughts, good and evil motives. This happens because we were made in the image of God (hence the good stuff), but we have sinned against God (hence the bad stuff). As Christians we have been forgiven and we are in the process of being renewed by the Holy Spirit. So we want to be more and more like Christ, yet at times we seem so far away, and our character, the heart of our being seems to be working against God. What are we to do? We call upon the Lord to search us. In fact He has already searched us, He already knows the most intimate truths about our lives, He knows us better than we know ourselves.
God knows all that goes on inside us, and all the practical details of our lives. God keeps a check on our lives, He acts in our lives. Even if we try we can escape from His presence. We can flee as far and as fast as we can go, but we cannot escape God. Even the darkness cannot hide us from God.
Why is this? Why this inability to escape from God? Because He made us. He made our inmost being, He formed us in the womb. So we should praise the Lord, for we are fearfully and wonderfully made. It is the Lord who gave us life. Our days were ordained before they came into being. Now we must not read this as fatalism (ie life is mapped out and there is nothing we can do about it, that is not what the Bible is saying). God is intimately involved in every moment of our lives, and every moment matters. What it does mean is that our lives are not at the mercy of chance, it does mean that every hair on our head is counted. God's thoughts are precious to us. Why? Because they are what determines the outcome of life.
Then David indulges in one of his periodic outbursts against the wicked. One day there will be no people who hate God, for the final judgement will have come.
The Psalm closes with David calling on God to search Him. We need to be examined by God, and we need to trust that He knows what is best for our lives.
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