MAKING PEACE WITH WHAT GOD SEES
Psalm 139
Summer Psalms – Part 7 of 7
v. 1 “O Lord, you have searched me and known me!” (esv)
MAKING PEACE WITH WHAT GOD SEES REQUIRES EMBRACING THAT …
GOD Knows Everything
v. 2 “… you perceive my thoughts from afar.” (niv)
v. 4 “Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.” (niv)
v. 5 “You have encircled me …” (csb)
v. 6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.” (esv)
GOD Is Everywhere
vv. 8-9
v. 12 “… even the darkness is not dark to you …” (esv)
Hebrews 1.3 “[Jesus] is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.” (esv)
GOD Created Everyone
v. 14 “Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” (esv)
v. 16 “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (niv)
GOD Provides Everlasting Life
v. 19 “Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!” (esv)
v. 24 “… lead me in the way everlasting!” (esv)
Hebrews 10.19–20 “… we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through … his body …” (niv)
v. 18 “I awake, and I am still with you.” (esv)