13th September 2023
Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 139 “You are familiar with all my ways.”
When I sit down to write this blog each week, I sometimes have an idea of what I’m about to write but as happened this morning, I read the full Psalm and a fresh idea or memory pops into my mind. I thought it was worth sharing a few more verses with you to explain where I landed with it, Psalm 139:
“1 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…
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;”
Those of you who know my background story will remember that 12 years ago I had a serious stroke following a car accident. In the long and pretty frustrating weeks I spent learning to walk and live independently, my best friend often kept me company at weekends in my hospital room, we laughed, talked and I often cried but one day there was a flicker of movement in my left hand for the first time! She looked at me and said “fearfully and wonderfully made!” It was a truly special moment amid tremendous grief and loss.
I suppose it could be unsettling that God knows our every thought and move but I hope you can also see what a great comfort it can be too!