Almost missed the chance to Friday uplift! I hope I catch you all before bed tonight… otherwise, consider this your weekend uplift 🙂

“Oh Lord you have searched me and know me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you know my thoughts from far away. You search it my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my days.” Psalm 123: 1-3

I was thinking I’d do a few weeks on psalm 139. There’s so much comfort in this song, and a reminder that when things seem to be less than perfect, or out of normal, God is in it with us.
I was reading a book today and one of the author’s main points was that humans have two basic needs: to be loved, and to belong.
And the way we can best have those needs meet is by being authentic and being known. When we are known, then we are loved and belong because of those things that make us who we are.

Yet so often we try to find love and belonging in the wrong places, just to fill us up.
But it’s like junk food.
It’s great in the moment, but feels horrible later.
Looking for love and belonging is the same… we try and try to fill the space with people and relationships and work and still we are missing something.
See, when we look to God for love and belonging, we will always get what we are looking for.

This verse was the first to pop into my head. God knows me. Better than anyone ever can or ever will. And even though God knows all of me, the good and the bad, and still loves me? Holy. Cow.
God knows you… And he loves you… ALL of you.

Remember that promise, take it with you, but remember.

Amen.