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One of the most challenging aspects of life on this planet earth, is loneliness. I can be in a crowd of people, even laughing with my friends, yet sense a nagging isolation in my heart. I want to be known intimately, even though such vulnerability can terrify me. I want to be understood, even though I do not understand myself. I want to be celebrated for who I am, despite the tendency to berate myself for my failings and shortcomings.

I know you can relate! It's the one desire we all share — the one longing we all have; to be known truly, and deeply.

Yes, intimacy can be threatening. So we get good at hiding our true selves from others — perhaps even from ourselves. It's scary to be seen plainly and purely, to have our best shielding and strongest defence mechanisms rendered ineffective, and yet we all secretly want it.

Isn't it wonderful that we can never erect a defence against God's love? As the Psalm says today, "O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit, and when I rise; you discern my thoughts, and watch over me all day!"

He sees into us completely. He sees through us entirely. He knows our shame, He knows our joy, He KNOWS us. And still, he loves us. His love isn't dependent on getting our act together. His love isn't conditional on our response, or our success, or even on our behaviour.

So let's run to Him! Let's give ourselves to Him!

Amen

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The Inescapable God
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.

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 far away.
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,
O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is so high that I cannot attain it.
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know 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 beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
I come to the end—I am still with you.

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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