Hello, my name is Sochiel Dixon.

I share how God comforted me in a moment of weakness in today's encouragement from our daily bread within God's reach.

After an officer searched me, I stepped into the county jail, signed the

visitor's log, and sat in the crowded lobby. I prayed silently, watching adults fidgeting and

sighing while young children complained about the wait. Over an hour later, an armed guard

called the list of names, including mine. He led my group into a room

and motioned us to our assigned chairs. When my stepson sat in the chair on the other side of the

thick glass window and picked up the telephone receiver, the depth of my helplessness overwhelmed me.

But as I wept, God assured me that my stepson was still within his reach.

In Psalm 139, David says to God, you know me, you are familiar with all my ways.

His proclamation of an all-knowing God leads to a celebration of his intimate care and protection.

Overwhelmed by the vastness of God's knowledge and the depth of his personal touch,

David asks two rhetorical questions.

Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

When we or our loved ones are stuck in situations that leave us feeling hopeless and helpless,

God's hand remains strong and steady. Even when we believe we've strayed too far for His loving redemption,

we're always within His reach.

Today's our daily bread devotional scripture reading is from Psalm 139, verses 1 to 12.

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise. You perceive my

thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down. You are familiar with

all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, you, Lord, know it completely. You hemmed me in behind

and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

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