You "lay your hand upon me"

Read these sweet words:


Psalm 139: 1-18

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.



7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from you presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,"

12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,

for darkness is as light with you.



13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are you works;

my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of the,
the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.



17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

18 IF I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.



I read this Psalm in my quiet time today. The words are beautiful, full of praise and thanksgiving to God! Such comfort in knowing that God has His hand on me and that he will "never leave me nor forsake me." What sweet verses! "...even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as day..." Nothing can keep my Father and Friend from being with me! What joy!