Shalom,
I love today's readings as we follow our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan! Psalm 139 is a favorite of very many people! Here are verses 1-12:
1 O
Lord, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me. 2 You know my
downsitting and my uprising; You understand my thought afar off. 3 You
sift and search out my path and my lying down, and You are acquainted
with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue [still
unuttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. 5 You have beset
me and shut me in—behind and before, and You have laid Your hand upon
me. 6 Your [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above
me, I cannot reach it. 7 Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could
I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if
I make my bed in Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there. 9 If
I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 Even
there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I
say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light
about me, 12 Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night
shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.
Although early on it may seem a little scary to our flesh nature to realize that GOD knows us even better than we know ourselves, when we realize that HE only and ever wants GOOD for us, then we can rejoice in the TRUTH that HE knows us so well! There is not one things about us that HE doesn't already know full well! And with THAT knowledge come the ANSWERS to every question we will ever have, the solution to every problem we will ever have and the WAY OUT for every situation!HALLELUJAH! Then comes our most well known and LOVED of Scriptures in verses 13-16:
13 For
You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I
will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful
and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that
my inner self knows right well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I
was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought
[as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of
darkness and mystery]. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your
book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when
as yet there was none of them.
HE KNEW ME! HE KNEW YOU! And no one knows you or loves you more! Verses17-18:
17 How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.HALLELUJAH! Meditate every day on the awesomeness of the GOD Who loves YOU with everything within Him! Do YOU love HIM with that same intensity? If not, WHY NOT? If you DO, then KEEP IT UP! THAT is the key to true prsoperity and success in every realm of life! Here is Hillsong with "What A Beautiful Name":
Shalom in Him!
