Thought for the Day 11/8/2024
Friday Tale - You Search out my Path I remember searchlights as a boy. Beams of light would sweep across the sky from near where I lived. They were searching for enemy planes, if they found one they would lock on to it and the gunners would try to shoot it down. My wife Fran had gunners right near her house. We were reminded of this by our reading of Psalm 139 today. “ Oh LORD you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up … you search out my path ” [v. 1-3]. But David realizes that God’s power to “see” extends far beyond what we do physically. We read, “ you discern my thoughts from afar … even before a word is on my tongue …” [v.4] In the language young people use today, they would describe as ‘awesome’ the thought that God knows our thoughts before we...