Tag: spirituality

Last night we continue our purity series at our “Pulse Sunday Night” gathering. In our Senior High group we talked about the messages the world sends us in regards to having a relationship or not. More importantly the pressure that we all can feel to be in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.

So today let’s think about a message that is listed on a sweetheart candy, and compare that to what God thinks about us.

Lord, you have examined me.
You know me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
3 You study my traveling and resting.
You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
4 There isn’t a word on my tongue, Lord,
that you don’t already know completely.
5 You surround me—front and back.
You put your hand on me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me;
it’s so high above me that I can’t fathom it.
7 Where could I go to get away from your spirit?
Where could I go to escape your presence?
8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there.
If I went down to the grave,[a] you would be there too!
9 If I could fly on the wings of dawn,
stopping to rest only on the far side of the ocean—
10 even there your hand would guide me;
even there your strong hand would hold me tight!
11 If I said, “The darkness will definitely hide me;
the light will become night around me,”
12 even then the darkness isn’t too dark for you!
Nighttime would shine bright as day,
because darkness is the same as light to you!
13 You are the one who created my innermost parts;
you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
14 I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.
Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
15 My bones weren’t hidden from you
when I was being put together in a secret place,
when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo,
and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,[b]
before any one of them had yet happened.[c]
17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me!
Their total number is countless!
18 If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand!
If I came to the very end—I’d still be with you.[d]
19 If only, God, you would kill the wicked!
If only murderers would get away from me—
20 the people who talk about you, but only for wicked schemes;
the people who are your enemies,
who use your name as if it were of no significance.[e]
21 Don’t I hate everyone who hates you?
Don’t I despise those who attack you?
22 Yes, I hate them—through and through!
They’ve become my enemies too.
23 Examine me, God! Look at my heart!
Put me to the test! Know my anxious thoughts!
24 Look to see if there is any idolatrous way[f] in me,
then lead me on the eternal path!

I realize that it is a long passage, but it so important for us to reign in and remember what this means for us even today. David’s psalm is very clear here in stating that we are never alone. We don’t need a relationship to complete us because God is always with us and we are complete in the love and grace of Jesus Christ.

Even more so I love how it says in verse 14.

I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.

We don’t someone else to make us feel loved, we are already loved by Jesus, completely. Today I pray that we would always know the message that the world sends about love and how that love is no where close to the marvelous that God gives us every second of every day. Hear the good news! Christ meets you where you are and accepts you for who you are, but doesn’t leave you there. He brings you to a new and marvelous life!

Amen.