June Message

June message … Psalm 139

I wonder what your favourite Psalm is …

one of my favourites is Psalm 139 especially verses 1 to 4:

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
 you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down
 and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
 O Lord, you know it completely.

These verses remind us that GOD knows us better than we know ourselves. He deals with each on of us as individuals and knows all our strengths and weaknesses, all our needs and problems. But although GOD already knows all our needs and problems he still loves us to come to him in prayer and tell him what we are worried about.

This verse reminds us that GOD is with us wherever we are …

… we cannot escape from his presence:

7 Where can I go from your spirit?
 Or where can I flee from your presence?

And these verses tell us GOD was in our lives even before we were born:

13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

How great to be reminded of the immense love of GOD for each one of us … love that caused him to send his only Son to this earth to die on a cross for all our sakes. 

THANK GOD for his GREAT LOVEfor ALL of us.

Brian Turner … Churchwarden St Mary’s Knockin.