Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2019-09-26 ILC Chapel — You Have Constant Contact With…

2019 Chapels -
You Have Constant Contact With God

 

Date : 2019-09-26
Speaker : John Pfeiffer

Psalm 139:1–14 (Listen)

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.


139:1   O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
  You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you discern my thoughts from afar.
  You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
  Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
  You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay your hand upon me.
  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.


  Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence?
  If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
  If I take the wings of the morning
    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10   even there your hand shall lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.
11   If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and the light about me be night,”
12   even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.


13   For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14   I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.1
  Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.

Footnotes

[1] 139:14 Or for I am fearfully set apart

(ESV)

Hymn: TLH 120, st. 5-6 :
Help us, O Lord! Behold We Enter

5. Jesus, be with me and direct me;
Jesus, my plans and hopes inspire;
Jesus, from tempting thoughts protect me;
Jesus, be all my heart’s Desire;
Jesus, be in my thoughts all day
Nor suffer me to fall away.

6. And grant, Lord, when the year is over,
That it for me in peace may close;
In all things care for me and cover
My head in time of fear and woes.
So may I when my years are gone
Appear with joy before Thy throne.