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. As believers, we can be tempted to think of the Lord as primarily a powerful being who rules from afar.

Today on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg begins a series titled The God Who Knows Me,

and we'll learn about an intimate God, who knows each of us better than we know ourselves.

I invite you to turn again to the Bible, to the Old Testament, and actually to the book of Psalms.

Psalm 139 to the choir master, Psalm of David.

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up.

You discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it

altogether. You hem me in behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too

wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your spirit? Or

where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed

and shell, you're there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell on the uttermost parts of the sea, even there

your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover

me, and the light about me be night. Even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is bright as the day, for darkness is

as light with you. For you formed my inward parts. You knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows

it very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately

woven in the depths of the earth. 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.

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