Anyway, I would like to challenge my fellow authors to find their favorite passage as well, and post it here. Along with a few reasons of why they find it to be one of their top favorites.
Psalm 139:
1. Oh Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2. You know when I sit 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 made 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 will cover me,
and the light about me be night,"
12. even the darkness is not as dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to 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 made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, everyone of them;
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there were 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 as 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!
"The Lord is my light and my salvation;
ReplyDeletewhom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
....
One thing have I asked of the Lord,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord
and to inquire in his temple.
For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will lift me high upon a rock.
...
Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
be gracious to me and answer me!
You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, Lord, do I seek.”
Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
O God of my salvation!
...
Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!"
Psalm 27:1, 4-5, 7-9, 14 ESV