#psalm 139

[starryrants]

“My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭139‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭ESV‬‬

[dawners]

Finally finished this quilt for a friend, she won it in an auction and chose the theme. Deciding on how to do the sun took about 6 months 😂 my aunt whose quilting inspires me made the suggestion of spikes 🤗 I hope she enjoys it

[thomastanker02]

Taken from Grace For The Moment by Max Lucado. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

@babyimlosingit

[oldguardleatherdog]

cw: openly Christian content...

I don't often talk about religion or matters of faith here in the cyberkennel; the details of my personal piety are my own concern and TBH are so mundane they would bore most people to tears. But once in a while under cover of night I'm moved to make a lowkey post where the words I use reveal my Fundamentalist upbringing as I try to reach a particular set of ears. What follows is a series of tweets I sent to a young adult furry who's heading to a con with a fistful of tracts and a goal of gaining converts. I'm not sure I was effective, but it's an honest read of what I'm wrestling with in my current heart:

Ran across your account and was struck by your determination to open your mind and heart. As a lifelong saved Christian I hope that as you go forward the Spirit will deepen and enrich your understanding of God's grace.

This fandom is filled with children of God who are deeply frightened - terrified, to be honest - by the actions of our government and the darkness in our culture that has trained its sights on us, has rolled back years of progress for our community in a matter of months - with the clearly stated intention of driving us out of American civil society.

I've been an activist for HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ+ civil rights for 40 years, and I remember how they cheered our deaths and legislated against us. We lost so many, but we endured - and now we have to fight again, and I work in trans rescue and relocation on the front lines, and I am older now, and weary. So I ask you: as a professing Christian, what is your witness to me, to us, now?

My ministry and witness to the furs and pups I so deeply love and serve has not been externally Christian for many years; the words of witness have been poisoned forever by the James Dobsons and Jerry Falwells and Doug Wilsons and Dominionist MAGAs who have perverted and twisted the Gospel into a cudgel used to immiserate us, so our ears and hearts will not open to traditional ways of witness. How do you intend to spread God's love at [the con] in a way that will mean anything to us in this unthinkable horrible moment?

Psalm 139 tells us that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made" without regard to who and how we love. That's the irrefutable word of the Lord. We are all the same in the eyes of God, and we are all deserving of His grace and blessing when all we can see is darkness.

You have your work cut out for you, as do I, and I'll tell you that I am struggling to find a way to manifest hope in others and in my own spirit. I choose to believe we will survive this, but it's a heavy lift, and if the Lord's gonna help us, He needs to start showing up.

Thank you for reading this skyscraper of text. I don't have any answers, not yet, and I offer this to you in the hope it will help inform your message and approach at the con and beyond. We are a dry, needy community. Bring rain. awoo and amen.

[lovelovecon]

Psalm 139:13 (ESV)

For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

[in-gods-service]

[fierysword]

The psalmist [in Psalm 139] has obviously given up on God as one who will control history for him, but he hasn't stopped relating to God. Rather he's enlarged the sphere in which God operates, has opened up his imagination, and has experienced God as the God of all creation... This is a God who is concerned with the entire world. This God is at once incredibly distant and incredibly intimate… This God knows us personally. This God was with us when we were formed in our mother's womb. This God knows our every thought and, at the same time, is present everywhere in the world…so that no matter where we go, no matter what happens to us, we will not be cut off from God… there is a presence at the very heart of the universe that empowers us all. The One who knows each one of us better than we know ourselves and who at the same time fills the entire universe continues to make connections, continues to bring new life into being.

Wisdom's feast : Sophia in study and celebration by Cady, Susan

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! — Psalm 139 | English Standard Version (ESV) The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Genesis 28:16; 2 Chronicles 19:2; Job 9:33; Job 10:8; Job 10:11; Job 14:5; Job 14:16; Job 22:13; Job 26:6; Job 31:6; Psalm 3:5; Psalm 5:8; Psalm 23:2-3; Psalm 33:11; Psalm 65:8; Psalm 119:115; Proverbs 29:27; Matthew 9:4; Romans 8:27; Romans 11:33; Hebrews 4:13; 1 John 1:5; Jude 1:15; Revelation 15:3

Who Knows You Best?