Ever present God

When I was little, I memorized this Psalm. Psalm 139. It’s a longer Psalm, I think my Grandma Virginia enjoyed this Psalm. I love that thought, I love that there is a spiritual heritage to reading what has been loved by those who go before me.

I have a habit of writing in my Bible. My first Precepts Bible, by the end, was in pieces and worn. i actually didn’t have Hebrews 11 for the last couple of years. Lol. Ripped out on accident. I plan to give each of my children a Bible that i have written my way through, but at the rate I am going, they may be fighting over two. Haha.

this psalm. A treasure to me.

“O Lord, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up [my entire life, everything I do]; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue [still unspoken], Behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And [You have] placed Your hand upon me. Such [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high [above me], I cannot reach it.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭1‬-‭6‬ ‭AMP‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/1588/psa.139.1-6.AMP

To be fully known and still loved. I bet you can recall thoughts and feelings you are relieved to know will never know the light of day. Thank you, Lord, for not have a rolling scroll on my forehead. Tho, some say that my face says it all. Haha. God knows all of those thoughts. Every one. And i am still fully loved. Accepted by God.

Maybe you are in a season of time in the Word is few and far between. Maybe you haven’t prayed in very long time. Maybe you wonder if you can come back. No, you wouldn’t say that out loud, but it’s a lie that is being told to your heart, over and over again. It’s a lie that is from the pit. He knows you. He loves you, right here, right now. You bear the blood of Jesus and through Him, you are saved.

His hand is on you. He has encircled you. Such wonderful truth. Isn’t it strange that we can have these lying thoughts floating around attacking, but how quickly we forget there is truth to combat? Maybe it’s time to write out these truths.

I keep them by my bed. I pick up truth any time I need it.

“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 (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, And the night will be the only light around me,” Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You, But the night shines as bright as the day; Darkness and light are alike to You.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭7‬-‭12‬ ‭AMP‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/1588/psa.139.7-12.AMP

These questions. Where? Nowhere. There is nowhere I can go to be absent from His presence. Darkness is as light to the Lord our God. Nothing is hidden from Him. Nothing. So, today, remembering this truth. That He knows each thought and word before it materializes on my tongue and still. Loves. Me.

“Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭3‬:‭20‬ ‭AMP‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/1588/rev.3.20.AMP

Open the door today. Remember the truth and declare it over the lies that so easily ensnare. God is greater. God is higher. Write it down and keep it by you so when the lies try to tell you that you are not enough, you will never be consistent, etc..you have truth to say, I am known. I am loved.