Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

Psalm 139 is a big psalm, one of the best known out of all 150. As a Christian pastor I have often read and shared this psalm with others, in many many different situations and circumstances. As a son, a husband, a dad, an individual follower of Jesus, these are words that I have also often engaged with personally and taken great comfort in.

The psalm itself comes in five blocks, each of which contain wonderful truths, first penned by David as he wrote about the God who He knew and who knew him.

Read: Psalm 138 vs 1-8

Today we come to Psalm 138. It is another psalm of David and the minute you start reading it you are struck by how this a psalm that looks forward. Verse 1 begins:

‘I will praise you, LORD … I will sing your praise.’

Read: Psalm 137 vs 1-9

The Bible is a book of promises. Back at the very beginning, when God called Abraham He promised that He would not only give him a family, but that He would lead them to a land of their own. This land was to be known as the Promised Land and it was to be a place of safety and of plenty.

Read: Psalm 136 vs 1-26

When I was growing up I remember on a number of occasions hearing people speak who were sharing what was called ‘their testimony’. A testimony was a talk where someone would tell the story of their life, but it was told from the particular angle of how God had been at work, finding them, helping them and keeping them going.

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