Summer Playlist, June 11
Summer Playlist Vol 2: Me & You God
Psalm 139
June 11th, 2023
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Psalm 1 teaches us…
When you pursue a lifelong practice of prayer and obedience to God and His Word, blessing will be your life partner.
Psalm 2 teaches us…
“Don’t attach your hope to the present, a Messianic King is in the future”!
God’s past faithfulness cements His future faithfulness regardless of present circumstance!
God is worthy of praise for who He is and for what He did, is doing and will do!
Psalm 139:1-18
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
“I-Thou” relationship as defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology
“denoting a relationship in which a subject (“I”) treats someone or something else as another unique subject (“Thou”). The I–Thou relationship allows for full empathy between subjects that can be transformative, in contrast to the I–It relationship, which objectifies the other.
Psalm 139:1-6 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Psalm 139:7-12
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Psalm 139:13-18 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
Sonogram pic of Clara Jane Crews at 20 weeks.
A miscarriage, lost pregnancy and even abortion – doesn’t erase the depth of “I-Thou” relationship God had and has with the child! Each are known and loved by God and were never out of His thoughts or presence. No breath “here” has no bearing on the breaths they are taking with their Creator now!
Characteristics of our intimate connection with God
You are not an accident; all God’s creation is purposeful.
You were known by God before anyone else could have known you.
God saw you and He sees you.
God has a plan for all your days.
God has personal thoughts about you that are numerically incalculable.
When you go to sleep God is thinking of you and when you wake up He is still thinking about you. You are never out of His mind. You are never alone.
Psalm 139:19-24 19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
What has to happen for you to embrace the “I-Thou” relationship you were designed to experience?