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August 17, 2021 8:00 pm
As I drove home after lunch with my best friend, I thanked God out loud for her. She knows me and loves me in spite of things I don’t love about myself. She’s one of a small circle of people who accept me as I am—my quirks, habits, and screw-ups. Still, there are parts of my story I resist sharing even with her and others that I love—times where I’ve clearly not been the hero, times I’ve been judgmental or unkind or unloving.
But God does know my whole story. He’s the One I can freely talk to even if I’m reluctant to talk with others.
The familiar words of Psalm 139 describe the intimacy we enjoy with our Sovereign King. He knows us completely! (v. 1). He’s “familiar with all [our] ways” (v. 3). He invites us to come to Him with our confusion, our anxious thoughts, and our struggles with temptation. When we’re willing to yield completely to Him, He reaches out to restore and rewrite the parts of our story that make us sad because we’ve wandered from Him.
God knows us better than anyone else ever can and still . . . He loves us! When we daily surrender ourselves to Him and seek to know Him more fully, He can change our story for His glory. He’s the Author who’s continuing to write it.
Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Today's reading titled God knows your story was written by Cindy Hesse Casper. As I drove home after lunch with my best friend. I thanked God out loud for her. She knows me and loves me in spite of things I don't love about myself. She's one of a small circle of people who accept me as I am, my quirks, habits, and screw ups. Still, there are parts of my story, I resist sharing even with her and others that I love times where I've clearly not been the hero times I've been judgmental or unkind or unloving. But God does know my whole story.
He's the one I can freely talk to. Even if I'm reluctant to talk with others.
The familiar words of Psalm 139 describe the intimacy we enjoy with our sovereign King, he knows us completely is familiar with all our ways invites us to come to him with our confusion, our anxious thoughts and our struggles with temptation when we're willing to yield completely to him. He reaches out to restore and rewrite the parts of our story that make us sad because we wandered from him. God knows us better than anyone else ever can. And still he loves us when we daily surrender ourselves to him and seek to know him more.
If only he can change our story for his glory.
He's the author who's continuing to write it. Our devotional scripture reading today is from Psalm 139 verses one through six and 23 through 24. You have searched me, Lord, and you know me you know when I sit and when I rise you perceive my thoughts from afar you discern my going out and my lying down.
You are familiar with all my ways before a word is on my tongue. You Lord know it completely Henry in behind and before you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain and picking up at verse 23 search me, God, and know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me and leave me in the way everlasting. Let's pray, precious father, we thank you for loving us as your dear children, despite the times that with all disappointed you help us to yield all of ourselves to you in full assurance that you are faithfully walking beside us every day. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries
