The Darkness
Will Not Be Dark To You
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when
I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and
my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and
before, and you lay your hand upon
me. Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your
Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens,
you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the
dawn, if I settle on the far side
of the sea, even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the
light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like
the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost
being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am
fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 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. Your eyes saw my unformed
body; all the days ordained for me
were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:1-16
Knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord will help you
realize that because God created you in His image, you will be “fearfully and
wonderfully made.”
God knows each one of us intimately. Not only are we
wonderfully made, but because of Christ’s death on the cross, we can also be
wonderfully restored to a right relationship with God.
Each person is a unique expression of God’s loving design.
Our
Daily Bread –