Psalm 139 is one of my absolute favorite passages in the Bible. Parts of this Psalm were our memory verses for each day during one of my first years helping teach Vacation Bible School. A boy in the class I helped with had a couple of friends with him that week who were new to church and reading the Bible. I’ll never forget helping them learn the verses and seeing one boy get so excited when he picked up a Bible, found Psalm 139 and zeroed in on the verses all on his own. He was so proud of himself and was blown away that he found the words he’d memorized in real, true print in the Bible.

Isn’t that how you think God wants us to be? So excited to pick up the Bible and discover things written there just for us? How can we not be when we read how well He knows us:

“O Lord, you have searched me 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 know it completely, O Lord.

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.”

All praise to God, our wonderful Creator who knows you better than anyone, loves you more than anyone, and has special plans in mind only for you. Have a wonderful week and remember that the One who knew you before you were born is the same One who can be your very best friend every day.