Friday, February 7
Read Psalm 139
Think About It:
- Reread verses 1-4. How do you feel knowing that God has searched you and known you; that He understands your thoughts; that He is acquainted with ALL your ways; that He knows every word you speak before you say it? Does it comfort you, amaze you, or make you uncomfortable?
- Verses 5-12 tells us that God is everywhere, there is nowhere we can go where God is not. We cannot run from God, we cannot be hidden from Him, even darkness cannot hide us, because God is light. In Genesis 16, Hagar experienced this very thing. She had run away from Sarah, but the angel of the LORD found her and spoke with her. In verse 13, Hagar calls God, “The-God-Who-Sees”. Do you ever feel as if you are invisible, that people don’t notice you? Do you feel alone? God sees you.
- Verses 13-16 refer to the creation of each individual human being and the incredibly intricate and delicate way God has created each of us. When you look at yourself and other people with this realization that God created, knows and loves each one of us, does that give you a different perspective, a different way of thinking about who you are, and who other people are? Does knowing this make a difference in how you treat other people?
Family Time:
- What does the LORD know? (verses 1-4)
- For what should we praise the LORD? (verse 14)
- What great prayer ends this psalm? (verse 23-24)
