This Changes Everything

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Title: This Changes Everything ------------------------------- Date: 4/8/2003
Keywords: “behind” “before” “enclose” “forgive”
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Passage: Psalm 139:1-6*

1. O LORD, Thou hast searched me and known me.

2. Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou dost understand my thought from afar.

3. Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down, and art intimately acquainted with all my ways.

4. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O LORD, Thou dost know it all.

5. Thou hast enclosed me behind and before, and laid Thy hand upon me.

6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it.

Questions

1. Do you ever feel like you've run out of chances with God?

 

2. How can "total exposure" be a good thing for us porn strugglers?

 

Practical help

King David (author of this psalm) is often described as a man after God's own heart. Wow! Wouldn't we all cherish having that as our epitaph.

Now consider this — David, this man who loved God dearly, committed adultery, conspiracy and murder (see 2 Samuel 11). How many of us would like this footnote at the bottom of our gravestones?

We porn strugglers can take hold of the same thing that David did — the scope of God's forgiveness. There's nothing you've done, are doing or will do that God won't forgive. David trusted this about God even though he couldn't comprehend it (verses 5,6). Do you? (If you're not sure, click here.)

A God who knows everything about me and still forgiveness me! This changes everything.

You bet it can!


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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."

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