Aligning Our Hearts with God's Heart (Psalm 139:19-24)
By: Cara Meredith Today's Bible Verse: If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Search me, 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. - Psalm 139:19-24 Sometimes, I have a tendency to pick and choose pieces of scripture that made me feel good. Psalm 139 is no exception. What I want to do is camp out in the first two-thirds of the psalm, seeking guidance and basking in the reminder that God created me in my inmost being, knitting me together in my mother's womb (13). I want for that feel-good smile to come to my lips, as I remember the words spoken from David to God and lean into the heart-knowledge that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, that "your works are wonderful, I know that full well" (14). But if I keep reading past verse 18, I start to feel uncomfortable, and my friends, discomfort isn't always something I want to feel. I'm prone to skip over the rest of the psalm, especially those four verses that don't seem to sing a song of consoling guidance. If I'm honest, I want to even try and understand a set of verses that feel saturated with more hate than love. | 
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