No Never Alone 11/22/13

Good Morning.

Happy Friday to you. This has been one long week. I am heading out early today with a stiff cup of Door County Apple Cobbler Coffee in my cup.

Man does not thrive well alone. There is within us something that desires to be needed, wanted, and around other people. I know that we all long for quiet time alone away from the world. But then we want to come back and tell others what we saw or experienced. I have been lost in the woods and felt alone in the dark. But I was not alone. I am never really alone. No matter where I go I will never be alone. God is with me wherever I go. I just need to acknowledge His presence. He was with me in the beginning and will be with me to the end.

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

¹ You have searched me, Lord,
    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, Lord, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay 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,^[a] 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.

So when you are feeling alone. Call out to God in prayer. He will never leave you alone. No. Never alone. In the funeral home, the unemployment line, the chemo clinic, the jail, at work. No. Never alone. No. Never alone

God bless,
Marty