My heart is always stirred when I read and meditate on this soul-searching Psalm! As we look to the coming Lord's Day, I trust that the following verses from this wonderful Psalm will bless, challenge, deepen and encourage you to keep digging deeper and climbing higher as you walk with Jesus toward heaven and home!
"O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with Thee.
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." And my heart always wants to say "Amen" when I finish these last two verses!
And as I think upon these last two verses --- Search me -- know me -- try me -- see me -- lead me ---
I want to remember this poem by Pearl McKinney, entitled "My Record"!
"If everything I do each day were written in a book --
If every evening I could see how that day's page would look --
I feel that on each passing day my record would improve,
My thoughtless deeds I'd rectify, all dross I would remove.
O, help me, Lord, to not forget my record at Thy throne,
And that my every thought and deed each day to Thee is known.
Dwell Thou within my heart, I pray, from dawn to setting sun,
That when my record is reviewed, I may hear Thee say, 'Well done'!"
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