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There's something about intimacy that is both wonderful, and terrifying! I've heard the word intimacy defined using a cute little catchphrase, a type of explanatory homonym: Into-Me-See.

Can you imagine wanting others to see into you? In a day and age when we are virtually connected to one another, I sense a growing hunger in the people around me for meaningful, tangible connections. Many of us want to invite people to see into us, and we long to know and to be known! Despite this hunger, the fear of having our selfish and hateful parts exposed to others, keeps many of us from connecting in the very ways we desire.

Perhaps a good proving ground for this kind of personal interconnection is to open ourselves to the knowledge and love of God! As it says in Psalm 139, He knows everything about us, and still he loves us! He sees our thoughts, even the evil ones; He knows our motivations and desires, even those which are selfish and destructive; and yet his love stands waiting. He sees us when we're active, he watches us while we sleep. Before we decide how we'll respond, God knows exactly what we'll say. This isn't because he controls us, but because his knowledge of our innermost person is so complete!

I've found that when people are interested in my life, I naturally become interested in theirs! A great way to find a friend is to be a friend! So what are we waiting for? God is pursuing us, and wants us to respond to his love! What a friend we can have in Jesus!

When we open our eyes to His all seeing, never-ending love, we can lower the walls of fear. We cannot hide from Him, so we're mistaken if we think God may discover some evil, unspoken part in us. He already knows everything that's there, and he's ready to take us by the hand and lead us to hope. He's ready to embrace us and hold us tightly in his love!

And that love changes everything!

Dear Lord, see into us, we pray. And give us courage to build intimacy with you too!

Amen

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The Inescapable God
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night’,
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my thoughts.
24 See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

#scripturesongs #psalm139:1-12

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