PATH OF LIFE: GOD’S WAY IS THE BEST WAY!

Ben Gutierrez 

Path of Life: God’s Way is the Best Way!  

Psalm 139 

God Knows You. Know You are Deeply Loved by Him!

Psalm 139:1-6 (NLT)

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 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.

Psalm 131:1 (Orig.)

Lord, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not condescending. I do not concern myself with matters too wonderful for me. 

God is Always Present. Don’t Withdraw from Him, Draw Near to Him!

Psalm 139:7-12 NLT

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 make 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 shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

Jonah 1:1-3 NKJV

1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

God is All-Powerful. Find Your Safe Place in Him. 

Psalm 139:13-16 NLT

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 being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 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.

Praise Him!

Psalm 139:14, 17-18 NLT

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well…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.

Hate Sin!

Psalm 139:19-22 NLT

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 my enemies.

Submit to Him!

Psalm 139:23-24 NLT

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!

Compare!

Psalm 139:1  NLT

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

Psalm 139:23a  NLT

23a Search me, O God, and know my heart! 

Willingness!

God’s Way is the Best Way!