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1 O Lord, you have searched me,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
, know it completely O LORD.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
you laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only You would slay the wicked O God!
Away from me, you with evil intent!
Your adversaries misuse your name.
20 Do I not hate those who hate you. O Lord and abhor those who raise against you?;
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
(NIV)
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Psalm 139:- This psalm speaks of our God, who knows everything,. He knows how things will work out, For example when a newborn baby is born, God will know that the baby, that he or she will become an expert or a doctor in the future.
Imagine you are about to meet God, the one who created you, the one who wrote your life before you were born.
This psalm speaks of things we might say, what we might be wondering and why, why did this or that happened in our life.
Why did I need to spend so much time in hospital? Why didn’t I have a close friend?
Why did my parents have to burn our chairs to keep us warm during the winter?
We all may wonder why, God gave us the life we have, and what was the reason behind the good and bad times that we have been through?
God designed our lives for a reason. We may not know or understand why, until we meet Him in heaven. What we tend to forget is, that God has the whole world, His creation, in His hands. Going through hard times in our youth, may help us appreciate our life in the future, or help people going through the same problems of life. You might be the person to start a charity to help them or a doctor that will find a way of healing them.
Whatever God has in mind for us let us go through it, with prayerful consideration.
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