Today's Scripture
Flaws and All Psalm 139: 1-18
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
I come to the end—I am still with you.
RJ's Devotion
What the passage says
V. 1-6 The Lord knows us from the inside out. Lord is acquainted with us, even though we can’t understand.
V. 7-12 Not only that our Lord knows us, but the Lord will also accompany our ways, even to the end of the world.
V. 13-18 For us, who are created by the Lord, it is hard to comprehend the majesty of our Lord.
What does the passage mean to me/us?
God knows everything about us. God see and listen every single thought and word. Not only that God knows us, but God will also be with us no matter what.
The astonishing fact is that we are a masterpiece in the eye of the majestic creator. Even though we forget who we are, and who we should be, God’s love still reaches out to us. God proves it through Jesus Christ.
Even though God knows our downfalls, God still comes to be with God’s creation. Meaning God is with you, right now, no matter what.
Prayer
Lord, we are overwhelmed by your love.
May we see your presence in our life today, and every day.
In Christ Name, we pray, AMEN
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One Comment
Larry Dickenson
I love this Psalm!
The revelation of God, my Creator, engaged in my conception, my thinking and my living, as a precious creation is so powerful!
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