Friday, April 30, 2021

 S -  Psalm 139:1-6,  13-18 (NIV)

You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

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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,[a] 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.

O -  The knowledge that God has of us is perfect.   He knows our every thought and emotion.  He knit us in our mother's womb.   David knows this about God and when he speaks to God he speaks both reverently and like a friend.  

A - David is an example of what I long to be.   The truth is at times I don't feel close to God, when my mind and body don't seem to want to go forward.  I am struggling today to feel God's presence and hear his guidance.   

P - Dear heavenly father I come to you this morning empty of myself,  I ask that you speak into me what I am going to do today and what steps of obedience I am to follow.  

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