Verse of the Day Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24 (NASB)

1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to 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, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.

13 For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.

17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart:
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way. (NASB)

FOR THE WICKED, UNREPENTANT PSALM 139:19-22 SPEAKS AS WELL

“Final Thoughts”

Psalm 139 — The Father Who Knows All Ways, All Thoughts, All Walks

Everything Yeshua taught in Matthew 11, everything James calls us to in James 4:8, everything Paul prays for in Ephesians 1, rests on this one reality:

The Father sees everything perfectly.

Psalm 139 is the active expression of that truth.

He searches every thought.
He knows every motive.
He discerns every path—every way of walking,
and every refusal to walk.
He sees every work and every absence of work.
Before a word forms on our tongue, He knows it completely.

This is why the Father hides truth from the proud and reveals it to infants (Matt 11:25–26).
He already sees the heart.
He knows who will take the yoke of the Son and who will resist.
He knows who will draw near and who will only pretend.

Psalm 139 is the foundation of discipleship:
the Father sees us clearly, and invites us to see Him clearly.

“Draw near to Him,” James says,
“and He will draw near to you.”

But Psalm 139 reminds us:
He already knows whether we truly intend to draw near at all.

This is the God who saves us by grace,
and the God who calls us into maturity.

Revelation 1:14-15, 21 The Son

Revelation 4:1-11 The Father