God's Creation

Today's Verses -- Psalm 139:1-18

Context:
This psalm was written by David.

Text:
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 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,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. (NIV)

taken from www.biblegateway.com

Our task this week from yesterday's Sunday school lesson is to understand the purpose of the book from which we each get the texts we are studying.

Do you ever wonder about your purpose? If a book of the Bible were written about you, what would it's purpose be?

God created each of us and he planned in advance our talents and skills. He knows our experiences, our emotions, and our thoughts. He caused each of us to be born into a particular place and time for a reason which we may not know until we get to Heaven. It may be huge -- to evangelize a nation like Billy Graham. Or it may be infinitely small -- to offer a cup of water or a kind word to someone in need.

Many people search desperately for their purpose, feeling less than whole if they don't know why they exist. Others seek opportunities to be purposeful each day, presuming that somewhere along the line they will achieve the objective of existence.

Where are you in the process of discovering your purpose? Does it matter to you? Do you believe God has shown it to you yet? How do you know what it is?