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Today our text comes from Psalm 139.\xa0
May God bless you as you hear his word.

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You have searched me, Lord,
\xa0 \xa0 and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
\xa0 \xa0 you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
\xa0 \xa0 you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
\xa0 \xa0 you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
\xa0 \xa0 and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
\xa0 \xa0 too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
\xa0 \xa0 Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
\xa0 \xa0 if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
\xa0 \xa0 if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
\xa0 \xa0 your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, \u201cSurely the darkness will hide me
\xa0 \xa0 and the light become night around me,\u201d
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
\xa0 \xa0 the night will shine like the day,
\xa0 \xa0 for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being;
\xa0 \xa0 you knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
\xa0 \xa0 your works are wonderful,
\xa0 \xa0 I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
\xa0 \xa0 when I was made in the secret place,
\xa0 \xa0 when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
\xa0 \xa0 all the days ordained for me were written in your book
\xa0 \xa0 before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
\xa0 \xa0 How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
\xa0 \xa0 they would outnumber the grains of sand\u2014
\xa0 \xa0 when I awake, I am still with you.
If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
\xa0 \xa0 Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
They speak of you with evil intent;
\xa0 \xa0 your adversaries misuse your name.
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
\xa0 \xa0 and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
I have nothing but hatred for them;
\xa0 \xa0 I count them my enemies.
Search me, God, and know my heart;
\xa0 \xa0 test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
\xa0 \xa0 and lead me in the way everlasting.

This is the Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

As you journey on, go with the blessing of God: \xa0 \xa0

Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping,
That awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep rest in his peace.
May Almighty God bless, preserve, and keep us, this day and forevermore.\xa0
Amen.