Psalm 139

Okay, we're going to start this up now. 

So anyway, people seem to think God doesn't care about the little things, or their day to day lives. They think God only cares about "godly activities" such as going to Sunday school or giving your tithes. Now don't get me wrong, those are things we need to do, and God cares about that. But he also cares about you as an individual.

In reality, we don't know ourselves as well as we think we do. We end up surprising ourselves daily. But, we never surprise God. He's that friend that knows you better than you know yourself. 

During my youth group on Wednesday, we read Psalms 139, which is what I based this whole post around.

So read it below, and really think about how this applies to you, and how much God cares and knows about you.

 

 

Psalm 139

New International Version (NIV)

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

 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.

⁵ You hem me in behind and before,

   and you lay your hand upon me.

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

   too lofty for me to attain.

 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?

   Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

   if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

   if I settle on the far side of the sea,

¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,

   your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

   and the light become night around me,”

¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;

   the night will shine like the day,

   for darkness is as light to you.

 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;

   your works are wonderful,

   I know that full well.

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you

   when I was made in the secret place,

   when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;

   all the days ordained for me were written in your book

   before one of them came to be.

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God!

   How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸ Were I to count them,

   they would outnumber the grains of sand—

   when I awake, I am still with you.

 ¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!

   Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;

   your adversaries misuse your name.

²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,

   and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?

²² I have nothing but hatred for them;

   I count them my enemies.

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;

   test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,

   and lead me in the way everlasting.

God is God. He knows everything about you. He knows what you love, what you hate. You he CREATED you, so he definitely knows you without a doubt. He also loved you enough to die for you. 

John 15:13 says "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." (NIV) 

If he loves you that much, don't you think he would care about your day to day life? It makes a lot more sense.

So today, just remember that God 

loves you,  

cares about you, 

and knows everything about you, because he created you. 

There isn't anything you have to hide. He knows. And he loves you anyway.

God bless and have a great day! :D