Book: Psalms

To consider the thought that my life knows no secrets from the penetrating eye of God may be unnerving. Yet I want to be known. I need to be known. I need God to shape my heart and renovate my spirit.

Man lives in terror of being exposed before God. He imagines that God has one intent, to destroy him. But the true design of the observation of God is to bring repentance and life. To be known of God may mean to be exposed to His wrath. Yet without it there is no redemption. The essence of redemption is understood in terms of being known of God.

It Happens Psalm 118

God Knows by Tracy Marsh, youth pastor Psalm 139

Even when you do not look for God, even when you do not lean into the presence of God, He is fully present. You have never been alone, because God is everywhere present. But we can pretend we are by ourselves. You can pretend you’re by yourself. And I can deny His presence. I can refuse to acknowledge it.

When Jesus is the center of your story, it changes how you let your story be told.

There’s a right-sized truth for every feeling of discontentment we have in our lives.

If anxiety exists when the problems around us overwhelm the peace within us then . . .
Peace exists when the Praise inside you overwhelms the Problems around you.

Because GOD separated death from Jesus, life with GOD can never be separated from you.