I just wanted to start this post out saying that
GOD IS TOO GOOD lol =)
No, but in all seriousness he truly is.
Ever feel like you were forgotten??
Ever feel like you didn’t matter or that no one
cared or that your needs and wants were insignificant to others?
My answers to all of these questions would be a
resounding YES!!
I can remember often times growing up, being a
middle child (well one of them, I’m three out of four) I felt like…how do I put
this… I just felt forgotten. I knew my parents loved me, and they cared about
what happened to me and what I enjoyed doing as a kid. However, I still felt
forgotten at times. I don’t know if it was because I wished all their attention
and focus was on me lol I don’t know.
Do I feel like that today??
No, absolutely not!
I realized that my parents are human and that they
too make mistakes. Just like I do. They’re
not perfect, but I STILL LOVE THEM, FOREVER AND ALWAYS =).
However, I have my JESUS, my GOD, who is PERFECT IN
EVERY WAY.
Before I read the verses for today, I was reflecting
on my childhood, and those feelings of being forgotten by my parents started to
come up. Then all of a sudden I started to feel depressed and self pity (this
is what happens when you focus on yourself). So, I prayed because I hate feeling that way and I know as a child of God I shouldn't be feeling this way.
God reminded me in his word that I am not
forgotten. Even as a little kid, when I felt like I was, I was on HIS MIND.
In Psalms 139 it says,
You have searched me, Lord,
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
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
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
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay 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.
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.
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.
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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.
That’s amazing!!=)
He even knew what you would do everyday of your
life before you were formed.
That’s mind blowing lol. My favorite part is this :
You have searched me, Lord,
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
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
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
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
He knows me better than I know
myself. He knows you better than you know yourself.
He knows my thoughts before I create them in
my mind. He knows that words that will come out of my mouth before I say them,
he knows when I’m going and when I’m coming.
And most importantly his hand is on
me. In other words, he is always with me=).
Therefore, I am not forgotten and
neither are you.
Stay in God’s Peace, not in
pieces=)
Saturday Sacrifice: Hannah
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