Comfort

"You have searched me, Lord , and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord , know it completely.  You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.  Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?  If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,  even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.  If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”  even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  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.  Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.  How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you."

Psalms 139:1‭-‬18 NIV

Can I just say, WOW. If you've ever felt alone, lonely, unseen, unloved, or useless take a few moments to read that. And then? Read it again. There is nowhere you could ever go or be that God doesn't see you, isn't right there with you! There is no part of your life that God doesn't know; He knows the beginning, the middle and the end. He knows your next thought before you have a chance to even form it! He knows you, He loves you and He is with you always! Like it says in Matthew 28:20 "Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age". Oh, the amazing, and undeserved love of God! He created us to be perfect, and by His grace in Christ Jesus we shall one day be made perfect! I look forward to that perfection. My days here are numbered; God knows each and every one of them. No matter how broken my body may be right now I can be assured that God is with me and He will one day renew me. No more pain or sorrow, sickness or sadness. What comfort we have as Christians.

"Amazing grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found.
Was blind, but now I see
...
When this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease
I shall possess within the veil,
A life of joy and peace."

I believe I'll be humming that hymn throughout my week. 

Here's the Celtic Women singing it


The Mel in the NorMel House