A Psalm 139 Life

"Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go to the heavens, you are there; if I make by bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of 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." Psalm 139.

My son is going into his senior year of college. Over the past year we have had many talks about growing up, relationships, choices and decisions about the future. He shared with me that although I haven't been around physically during his college career there are not many topics that arise that he is unsure as to what my opinion is on the subject. He also knows that any advice I offer him is based on the knowledge I have of who he is and what is best for him. I have known him since his birth and have watched him develop and grow into this person.

Psalm 139 is a similar conversation between David and God. You will be blessed if you truly take this chapter in and absorb the magnitude of who God is in our lives. If we lived out the belief of Psalm 139 we would never fret over anything in our lives. We would take the random and chaos in our lives and know that it was from God who works out every activity under the sun and uses it for our good. We would know that whether we are worshipping or sinning we cannot escape the presence of God. We may not be able to feel His presence but that doesn't change the fact that He is there. We cannot feel the warmth of the sun on cloudy days but it is still there unchanged and still working around the clock to fulfill its purpose - the same is with God. Does the earth fret that the sun will never reveal itself again?

Over the past year with so much focusing on sickness and death, I took intense comfort in vs. 16. "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." How can we lose our peace so quickly when every thought, action and event has already been written down and thought through by God Himself?

The next time you are losing your peace and joy tell yourself this is already written in my book of life and this day alone was ordained by God. This Psalm has nugget upon nugget of the wonderful and perfect workings in our individual lives orchestrated by an individual God.