He Knows Me, and Still Loves Me
Turn in your Bibles if you have them, with me, to Psalm 139. I too have been looking forward to this psalm but also in some sense dreading it. It's hard to live up to Psalm 139. It's so exalted; it's very precious in our hearts. We just had a funeral here this last week and one of the verses out of this psalm was the family verse of that sister in the Lord who went home to heaven. Perhaps there are many of you who have a particular verse in Psalm 139 that speaks deeply to you, that's meant a great deal to you in the course of your Christian experience. A number of years ago, believe it or not it's been over fifty years ago now, an Anglican clergyman named J.B. Phillips who was a Cambridge scholar and translated the New Testament and wrote a number of books, wrote a…