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November 8 - Psalm 139 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Friday, it is the 8th of
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  November. Well done making it through to
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  the end of the week. My brain has turned to mush and
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  that is OK because the weekend is just around the corner when
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  it will slowly put itself back together again.
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  Oh I hope you are going well and I hope the weekend ahead is full
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  of promise as we take a moment out of our Friday to read a
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  Psalm together. Oh, and today's Psalm is a
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  genuine crackerjack of a Psalm. I would have to say this is my
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  first favourite Psalm. I've had many favourite psalms,
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  and many psalms are continuing to be my favourite as I come
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  across them and read them at different times in my life, but
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  this was the first one that just struck me.
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  This is a Psalm that was read at my grandfather's funeral and it
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  just hit me as a little kid as the most incredible thing I'd
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  ever heard. And it continues to be a special
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  one for me, telling me just how precious I am to the God of the
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  universe. It's the first time my brain
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  understood the paradox or didn't necessarily understand.
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  I still don't understand it, but was confronted with the paradox
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  of an awesome God of the universe who comes to me
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  intimately with love. How fantastic.
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  Let us read this together, friends.
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  This is a Psalm for the choir director, a Psalm of David.
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  Psalm 139. O Lord, you have examined my
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  heart and know everything about me.
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  You know when I sit down or stand up.
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  You know my thoughts when I'm far away.
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  You see me when I travel and when I rest at home.
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  You know everything I do. You know what I'm going to say
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  even before I say it. Lord, you go before me and
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  follow me. You place Your hand of blessing
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  on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful
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  for me, too great for me to understand.
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  I can never escape from Your spirit.
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  I can never get away from Your presence.
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  If I go up to heaven, you are there.
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  If I go down to the grave, you are there.
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  If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the
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  farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me and your
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  strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide
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  me and the light around me to become night, but even in
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  darkness I cannot hide from you. To you, the night shines as
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  bright as day. Darkness and light are the same
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  to you. You made all the delicate inner
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  parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
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  Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.
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  Your workmanship is marvellous. How well I know it.
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  You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I
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  was woven together in the dark of the womb.
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  You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was
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  recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before
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  a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts
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  about me. O God, I cannot be numbered.
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  I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of
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  sand. And when I wake up, you are
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  still with me. Oh, God, if only you would
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  destroy the wicked. Get out of my life, you
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  murderers. Ah, they blasphemy you.
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  Your enemies misuse your name. Oh, Lord, shouldn't I hate those
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  who hate you? Shouldn't I despise those who
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  oppose you? Yes, I hate them with total
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  hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
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  Search me, O God, and know my heart.
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  Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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  Point out everything in me that offends You and lead me along
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  the path of everlasting life. Ah Lord, here I am before you, a
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  newborn baby being knitted together, You, the architect of
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  every cell in my body and every moment of my life.
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  Doesn't happen by coincidence or chance, but every day is planned
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  out by You before a single one of them has come to pass.
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  Oh Father, you know me so intimately.
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  You know all of us so intimately.
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  Our deepest desires of our hearts, the foibles of our
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  personality and the gifts that you have hidden within us that
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  You slowly nurture to life for Your glory and for the good of
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  the world. Oh Father, thank you for this
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  intimate love that you have for each one of us.
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  It really does boggle our minds that you, the mighty God of all,
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  is the intimate Saviour of us. So we open our hearts before
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  You. We have nothing to hide from
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  you. We are yours and we love you,
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  and we pray all of this in your gentle, intimate, loving name,
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  Jesus, Amen.