I am finding comfort today knowing that God, the Creator of the universe, my Savior and my Lord, knows me completely, intimately, and intricately. There is no where that I can hide from his presence. And I am asking him to search me and lead me today.
Psalm 139
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thought from afar.
You search out my path adn my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my ongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascent to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night.”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
For your formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very wsell.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was noone of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain!
Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them as my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
I often refer to this verse when considering how God knows the unborn children of this world and how precious those lives are even as they are being formed in the womb.
Today it is a comfort as I know that God also knows me presonally, now! In this very moment, He know me, he knows my thoughts, my words and the very number of my days.
I fail Him so very often. But I am so thankful that he doesn’t condem me, he loves me and extends grace to me every single time. He doesn’t leave me to wallow in failure, he leads me in the way everlasting….in HIS way.
Kristi_runwatch says
Amen! One of my favorite Psalms.
Jordan says
This is beautiful, Monica! It brings tears to my eyes to think on how very much our Father knows our hears and our ways, good and bad, yet loves us still. Thank you for that reminder today!