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1 O Lord, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O Lord.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
I am memorizing Psalm 139 in school right now.
I have learnt tons from this RICH Passage! I'd like to point out a few of the things this Psalm tells us, that I see as extraordinary.
-You are KNOWN.
Not only does God know us better than we even know ourselves; he accepts us! Seriously, our human nature is not that wonderful.
God knows it all, yet he still chooses US! Us. Unworthy. Disgraceful. and all the other terrible things that we are. He knows. But you know what else? He claims us! As humans, this is something that we'll never fully understand (even if we think we do). God gets YOU. To me, this is pretty astounding.
The Creator of the Universe KNOWS you. Fully and Truly.
-You are NOT ALONE.
He never ever leaves us. Though we may want him to, or think he has, he doesn't. So many times we think we are alone. We think no one understands. We think no one has been where we have been; and the list goes on. But it's not true. God gets us and He is with us!
-You are CREATED.
God put you on this planet. God made you and who you are. You have purpose. We were created to be HIS children!
There are a lot more things in this Psalm that I could go on and on about. There's also a lot I already went on about. What I went on about does absolutely in no way give us the right to be okay with our sin b/c we were 'made' this way. Though many of you will read this that way.
So, I'm asking that you'll try to read this 'right' and let it sink in/humble you.
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