 A
Much Needed Reminder
As Christians we have the advantage of the
Holy Spirit to lead and guide us in the way we should go. Because of His
awesome Holy spirit we are never alone. What a comfort this is!
Virtual Chapel 2-6-06
A Much Needed Reminder
GOD, investigate my
life; get all the facts firsthand.
I'm an open book to
you;
even from a distance,
you know what I'm thinking.
You know when I leave
and when I get back;
I'm never out of your
sight.
You know everything
I'm going to say
before I start the
first sentence.
I look behind me and
you're there,
then up ahead and
you're there, too--
your reassuring
presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too
wonderful--
I can't take it all
in!
Is there anyplace I
can go to avoid your Spirit?
to be out of your
sight?
If I climb to the sky,
you're there!
If I go underground,
you're there!
If I flew on morning's
wings
to the far western
horizon,
You'd find me in a
minute--
you're already there
waiting!
Then I said to myself,
"Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I'm immersed
in the light!"
It's a fact: darkness
isn't dark to you;
night and day,
darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
Oh yes, you shaped me
first inside, then out;
you formed me in my
mother's womb.
I thank you, High
God--you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am
marvelously made!
I worship in
adoration--what a creation!
You know me inside and
out,
you know every bone in
my body;
You know exactly how I
was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted
from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you
watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my
life were spread out before you,
The days of my life
all prepared
before I'd even lived
one day.
- Psalm 139 from
Eugene Peterson’s The Message
Sometimes we just need
to be reminded. As we go through life, we often find ourselves asking
the question, “Where is God?” We tend to ask this question more when we
are going through events in our lives that cause us pain, anger, and
anxiety. Psalm 139 was also written in a time of tension. All is not
well, so the psalmist yet again sets out to locate God in his life one
more time. He discovers that God is not missing, rather God is as
present in his life as God has always been. Psalm 139 reminds us that
God has not wandered off, rather we have become too preoccupied to
notice. God is not only with us along our journey, but God is the
source from which we came. By the source we are sustained, but when we
are cut off from it, we begin to weaken and lose touch with who and
whose we are. We must be connected with our source, God, in order to
sustain the journey ahead. The psalm reminds us that God is not far,
in fact God is everywhere, encompassing us. God knows our story. God
knows us better than we know ourselves. This does not mean that God
dictates everything that happens in our lives, but it assures us that
God is never far away at any point along the journey.
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