Second Sunday in Epiphany

Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

1. Being ____________ by God can be a ____________ thing.

2. Jesus is the ____________ God who knows you ____________ than you know yourself and His Word cuts to the ____________.

3. We may be ____________ of what God will find in our hearts, but we should rejoice that it is our ____________ God who finds it.

Scripture Readings
1 Samuel 3:1-10
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
John 1:43-51

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

[We] are all only too prone to forget that the all-wise God knows all our thoughts, words, and deeds and that the darkness cannot hide us from Him, for "the night shineth as the day, and darkness and light are both alike to Him" (Psalm 139:12).

But Scripture shows us also how to employ God's omniscience for our comfort in spiritual and physical needs. God knows those who have a contrite heart, who tremble at His Word (Isaiah 66:2), and He delights to dwell with them in His grace (Isaiah 57:15, Psalm 34:18; 51:17). Our heavenly Father knows our physical wants and needs (Matthew 6:32). He knows the righteousness of our cause when the enemies of the truth malign and persecute us (Psalm 17:3).

- Francis Pieper, Christian Dogmatics, vol. 1.