Step four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

The psalmist talks of the God before whom such a searching and fearless moral inventory is both possible and necessary. Ours is a God who, in traditional language, is omniscience and omnipresent, a God who knows all and is everywhere. This Psalm is sometimes called the Psalm of the unavoidable God.

We believe that before our God there are no secret thoughts or actions. All is known by our God. I remember hearing a lecture one time where the speaker had a fantasy. He was going to go into one of those high rise apartment buildings where there is a large panel of buttons to call each apartment. He was going to push all of them at once, say "All is known," then step outside to see how many people jump.

What would you fee…