Known And Loved
INTRO: I don’t know who it is that needs to hear this, probably all of us..but were gonna get a reminder of just how incredible our God is, and to remember that the goodness of God is equal to His greatness..If you want to know just how great His goodness is toward you and just how much He loves you, look at the cross..
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
19 Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
20 For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.
A literal translation would be “I take up the wings of the dawn; I dwell at the end of the sea.” The word dawn implies “east,” since the sun rises in the east. Since the Mediterranean Sea formed the western border of Israel, the word sea was used for “west.” The idea is that if we go east or west, then “even there [God’s] hand will lead me; [his] right hand will hold on to me.” It also means that from morning to evening, from dawn to dusk, the Lord will direct us (“lead me”) and protect us (“hold on to me”). We cannot escape his presence, and we cannot outrun it. No matter how far we go and no matter how fast we run, he is already there!
Omnipotence knits us together in the dark and secret place of our mothers’ wombs. Before our mothers knew they were pregnant, the Lord was busy shaping and forming us in their wombs. He was already laying out the particulars of our lives.
A single thread of DNA from one human cell contains information equivalent to a library of 1,000 volumes or 600,000 printed pages with 500 words on every page. At conception, one embryo has the equivalent of 50 times the amount of information contained in the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.
God saw us at the moment of conception as an unformed substance. Even when we were not much, we were still something to him. He prerecorded and set out all our days in advance. God wrote all the details of our lives down in his book, and he fashioned and formed all the days of our lives when none of them yet existed
We would do well to leave such final assessments to God
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