Okay, it’s time to get serious again about scripture study and sharing what the Lord is teaching me. On Sundays, we are doing Summer in the Psalms, and a couple of weeks ago, one of the pastors/elders spoke on Psalm 139, and it highly impacted me. So, I decided it was time to go deeper, which will be my blog’s focus for a while. I’m not sure if it will be a one time a week, or two, or even daily like it was when I started blogging. But it is time to get going again.

So, I’ll start today by including the whole of Psalm 139, English Standard Version, which you can read ahead of time if you choose. Then, in the next post, I will begin sharing what the Lord is showing me through His Word.

It is essential to listen to and hear what our leaders are teaching us, but the Bible also instructs us to study for ourselves and test what others say against scripture. Double blessings all the way.

May His richest blessings be on you today and always, my friends – Vicki

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.

Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!^c
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!