Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 136-142.

All of these psalms are worth reading, but I am going to focus on Psalm 139 today.  I am struck by how this psalm addresses those who think they were made wrong, that their mind should be in a different body, or that there is something wrong with their body.  No, the psalmist tells us that God knew what He was doing when He shaped us.

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.

If you are one of those who think the above, the psalmist was talking to you when he wrote this.  But there is more to this psalm than just that.  Before he got to that point the psalmist reminded us that knows us: He knows what we think and what we do.  There is no place we can go where God does not see us and cannot reach us to help us, or to discipline us.  And this is where I need to go back to today’s first psalm, where the psalmist says again and again about God, “His love endures forever.”  No matter where we are, or where we go, or what we do, God is with us and we are with Him…and He loves us.  Let us embrace His love and seek to be the person He made us to be.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.