Psalm 139:7-13, 23-24 (NIV)
“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…

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.”

God knows each of us intimately because He created us.  Not only did He create us, but He loved us - He came and pursued each of us. Do you ever feel like you messed up big time and get overwhelmed with guilt? Do you ever just want to hide from God? These verses are saying that there is nowhere we can be away from God, and this is grace. God is always wanting us to come back to Him, to be with Him. How can this be? Because God already pursued us, and already loved us with a miraculous, sacrificial and completely perfect love. He already took care of the mess through the blood of Jesus Christ. Nothing can separate us from God and His love in Christ Jesus. But it doesn’t stop here. God keeps pursuing us because we are now to be useful in His hands, in the hands of our Father.

In verse 10, King David writes, your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. God won’t let go - this is our reality. Have you put your hand in God’s hand? It is God’s hand that leads us into living for God’s purposes, and this is true worship. Because God pursues us, every single moment of our lives is now different. David simply responds by asking God to come and be even more intimate with Him, and to lead him in the way everlasting, which is essentially the Father’s heart. Missionary Eric Liddell said, Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best. Let’s ask God for His help to stop putting our hand in the hand of something that is second best. This not who we are. Let’s ask God to help us stop yielding the devotion of our hearts to second best. This is not what we were created and saved for.  Instead, let’s also pray the prayer that David prayed and invite God to be even more intimate with us, and ask God to lead us to His heart. May our devotion and worship be “all in” for God’s heart and for His glory.  https://safeshare.tv/x/RpUP_O99U8A

-CH