January 14th Reflection - by Bill Lynch

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 (NRSV)
You have searched me out
O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,

O Lord, you know it completely.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is so high that I cannot attain it. ...

For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.
How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
I try to count them they are more than the sand;
I come to the end I am still with you.

Reflection
How much more can God know you or me? God knows us down to every detail. What an awesome love! The Creator, the Savior, the Spirit over all, knows us! Look up into the sky at night as see how great and vast the universe is, then look into a microscope and be amazed at life beyond normal sight. Next realize that we have a God that knows our every detail. A God that is with us before we began and after we end. A God that graciously give life and love. How much more can God know you or me? Thanks be to God!

Prayer
Lord, teach me and show me the way to express my love for those you give to me in such detail... today... tomorrow... and forever. --- Amen