Josh, Maine.
[ "Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. … If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." Ps 139:2-3, 11-16
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee…" Jer 1:5
O God our Father, not only are You a God a far off but also a God at hand. You know my frame, O LORD. You know my innermost thoughts and affections. You are intimately acquainted with every fiber of my being. Yea, in You I live, move, and have my being. God, in this I find repose. I find solace in Your presence, LORD. Channel my affections as a river, O God. Turn them whithersoever You desire. LORD, make me to drink of the river of Thy pleasures, for with Thee is the fountain life. ]
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Graeme, Iowa.
[ "Men would strip Deity of His omniscience if they could—what a proof that "the carnal mind is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7)! The wicked do as naturally hate this Divine perfection as much as they are naturally compelled to acknowledge it. They wish there might be no Witness of their sins, no Searcher of their hearts, no Judge of their deeds. They seek to banish such a God from their thoughts: "They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness" (Hosea 7:2). How solemn is Psalm 90:8! Good reason has every Christ-rejecter for trembling before it: Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance." ]
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If we lived every moment like Christ was siting next to us, listening to everything we said and watching the same things we were, how much different would we live and act? So often I fail to remember that nothing I do goes unseen or unconsidered by our Lord.
This chapter was just the reminder, nay, the slap in the face I needed; sorry I didn't have a chance to post a photo.
-Nathan P.
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