Reassurances

O. T. #1433 "Reassurances"
April 29, 2019
Summary of Psalm
The LORD will work out His plans for my life-for Your faithful love, O LORD, endures forever. Psalm 138:8

LET IT GLOW

I teach a girl's Bible class on Wednesday night at our church. They are grades 2-5, with a wide range of needs. I try to reassure them of God's love for them. Our last lesson dealt with our feelings. Sometimes we feel down about a certain physical characteristic, but to we can have reassurance from God. It is good to daily remember that we are God's child and don't forget it. He has always been involved in our life, even before our birth. Today's chapter deals with those reassurances.

Now turn over to David's Psalm 139. It can be good for us to review the characteristics of God. What are some things he is sure of concerning his relationship with God (NLT)?

• God knows everything about us. (verse 1)
• He knows when we sit down or stand up. (verse 2)
• He knows our thoughts. (verse 2) 
• He sees us when we travel and when we rest at home. (verse 3)
• God knows everything we do. (verse 3)
• He knows what we are going to say, even before we say it. (verse 4) 
• He goes before us and follows us. (verse 5)
• God places His hand of blessing on our head. (verse 5)
• We can never escape from His Spirit. (verse7)

Aren't those reassuring on one hand and even scary on the other hand? Yet we can find comfort in knowing we cannot escape from His Spirit.

 LET IT GROW

Verses 13-16 New Living Translation show us how special we are individually since God is our Creator:

• He made all the delicate, inner parts of our body and knit us together in our mother's womb. (verse 13)
• He made us wonderfully complex! His workmanship is marvelous.(verse 14)
• He watched when we were formed in utter seclusion.(verse 15)
• God saw us before we were born. (verse 16)
• Every day of our life was recorded in our book. (verse 16)
• Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. (verse 16)

After acknowledging God's work in our life before one breath toke place, he went on to say, as I do:

LET IT GO

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (verses 23-24)

Then wash me with the blood of Jesus.