Psalm 139
1 O Lord, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3 You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
4 You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, Lord.
5 You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
7 I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,[a] you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God.
They cannot be numbered!
18 I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!
Get out of my life, you murderers!
20 They blaspheme you;
your enemies misuse your name.
21 O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?
Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred,
for your enemies are my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
I have heard or read this passage a hundred times but until I prayed for God to really open up my eyes and heart while reading it did I see its true meaning to me. Honestly I have been struggling trying to control my own life for quite some time now. I read this great illustration one time about imagining your life as a piece of art. The frame consisting of your personality, your physical characteristics, and your gifts and abilities. God has chosen a perfect frame that fits me, and who he created me to be. But I often find myself looking for a more appealing frame, and not until I try that frame on do I see that even that frame comes with problems. God made my frame for me he knew the plans for my life before I was even born, but yet sometimes I want to control and pick my own frame not embrace the one I was given. George MacDonald C.S. Lewis's mentor wrote, "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and mots precious thing in all thinking." Wow to have that prayer of contentment is amazing to me. Back to our life as a piece of art. The art inside the frame represents a emerging picture of who you are becoming. God lays out the background, and then sweeps brushstrokes across the canvas of our lives. If we step back and let God do the work, and not try to control our own brushstrokes your picture can reflect a beautiful painting. If we try to control and not let God we could make some bad brushstrokes.I feel like this passage to me helps me see that God knows everything about me, God created everything about me and he does not make mistakes. I need to step back let him create the masterpiece and trust his skills.
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