We encourage you to read this devotion three times a
day. Start in the morning and reflect upon the morning reflection
question. Then in the afternoon, read it again and reflect using the noon
question for reflection. For the evening, take time to ponder how this
has resonated with you in the day and reflecting using the evening
question. We offer a prayer with each devotion for you to pray or we
invite you to pray what is in your heart.
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
LORD, you have examined me.
You know me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
3 You study my traveling and resting.
You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
4 There isn’t a word on my tongue, LORD,
that you don’t already know completely.
5 You surround me—front and back.
You put your hand on me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me;
it’s so high above me that I can’t fathom it.
You are the one who created my innermost parts;
you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
14 I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.
Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
15 My bones weren’t hidden from you
when I was being put together in a secret place,
when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo,
and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,[a]
before any one of them had yet happened.[b]
17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me!
Their total number is countless!
18 If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand!
LORD, you have examined me.
You know me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
3 You study my traveling and resting.
You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
4 There isn’t a word on my tongue, LORD,
that you don’t already know completely.
5 You surround me—front and back.
You put your hand on me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me;
it’s so high above me that I can’t fathom it.
You are the one who created my innermost parts;
you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
14 I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.
Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
15 My bones weren’t hidden from you
when I was being put together in a secret place,
when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo,
and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,[a]
before any one of them had yet happened.[b]
17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me!
Their total number is countless!
18 If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand!
If I came to the very end—I’d still be with you.
Reflection:
It is easy to feel alone. It is easy to feel as if no one truly knows who you are. In
today’s social media age, we get to portray exactly who we want to be. We get to
hide all of our imperfections and all of the “boring” aspects of our lives. We cover
them with filters and let those around us only see what we allow them to see. No one really knows the real us. Then, when we read passages like this in our Bibles, we are uncomfortable. Psalm 139 is perhaps one of the most well known psalms. It reminds us that God sees us without filters. Not just what we want God to see, but all of us- our imperfections, scars, pains, and hurts. There is not an aspect of us that God doesn’t already know writes the psalmist. God knows our words, our plans, our actions, and even our creation. God knows us so well, better than we can even comprehend. With God we are not unknown or alone.
Reflection Questions:
Morning: When have you tried to hide something from others and from God?
Noon: What stands in your way of allowing God to see all of you?
Evening: How does it feel to be known by God?
Reflection:
It is easy to feel alone. It is easy to feel as if no one truly knows who you are. In
today’s social media age, we get to portray exactly who we want to be. We get to
hide all of our imperfections and all of the “boring” aspects of our lives. We cover
them with filters and let those around us only see what we allow them to see. No one really knows the real us. Then, when we read passages like this in our Bibles, we are uncomfortable. Psalm 139 is perhaps one of the most well known psalms. It reminds us that God sees us without filters. Not just what we want God to see, but all of us- our imperfections, scars, pains, and hurts. There is not an aspect of us that God doesn’t already know writes the psalmist. God knows our words, our plans, our actions, and even our creation. God knows us so well, better than we can even comprehend. With God we are not unknown or alone.
Reflection Questions:
Morning: When have you tried to hide something from others and from God?
Noon: What stands in your way of allowing God to see all of you?
Evening: How does it feel to be known by God?
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