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.
-Psalm 139:1-3
This morning, I woke up to a new tune on my alarm. I’d forgotten that I had changed it, but it was a welcome wake up call. It’s a clip from “This I Know” by Margaret Becker. This is what I heard first thing in the morning “All these changes that I’ve been through have left me with only one absolute. This I Know, only this I know that your love never changes as I go.” I smiled and thanked God for giving me a personal wake up call.
Some days and weeks, we all need a reminder that God is intricately involved in our lives. The last several months have been a blur in my life-very full. Some days have been a roller coaster ride of emotions. In the last couple of weeks, I have celebrated wedding, bought a house with my dad, gotten sick with a very uncool bug and started a moving process. These are just on top of the regular day to day stuff.
I’m not complaining. I know many of you are very busy as well. I share this because I am grateful that God is involved in my life and that He reminds me of His love many times when I least expect it.
Here’s the rest of the words to the song:
This I Know
Oh Lord
Won’t You hold my hand
And help me to find
A new place to stand
All these changes
That I’ve been through
Have left me with only
One absolute
CHORUS
This I know, only this I know
That You love never changes
As I go
Only this I know, only this I know
That Your love never changes
As I go
Oh Lord
I’ve crossed mercy lines
For what seems to be
At least a thousand times
And still
It’s Your love that I see
Long, high, wide and deep
Reaching out to catch me
(repeat chorus)
It was love that first drew me
It is love that will keep me here
Now I see love burning brightly
When everything else in unclear
(repeat chorus)