I Come To The End – I Am Still With You

Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! I try to count them – there are more than the sand; I come to the end – I am still with you.

Psalm 139:7-18

God does answer our prayers. It may not be in the way we had asked, or in the form we asked. But know that all our prayers are answered. God gives us what we need in order to best glorify Him, and in His time.

It will always lift your spirit to know that long before we were created, God had a plan for our lives. Our lives are in God’s able hands, every day and night of our existence here and eternally. Everything has an expiration date, ourselves included. That expiration date is replaced with a date that never expires in heaven.

As we suffer illness or grow older, we naturally think more about death. If we are believers in Christ, we can be confident that death is an open door to eternal life with Jesus. With the psalmist David, we are comforted by the truth that the God who loves us knows all the dates.

God’s timing is perfect – even in death.

Our Daily Bread – July 20, 2008