When I first heard this song, I immediately thought of Psalm 139. I love that passage that starts, “Where shall I go from your Spirit?” I’ve tested that passage. I’ve fled. I’ve run from God, made my bed in dire conditions and dreadful situations, but no matter where I went or what I did… God was there. He was leading, even when I didn’t want to be led. He was holding me, even when I withdrew from His hand. He has been faithful throughout my unfaithfulness.
I do praise Him now. I am grateful He did not give up and He has not let go. And I love that last verse of this passage, “I awake, and I am still with you.” Truly a blessing.
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
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.How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.-Psalm 139:7-18
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