"The God who knows and guides me" (based on Psalm 139, Psalm 8 and Hebrews 6:19 - 20)

For the director of music. A psalm of Harry

Lord my God, you deserve all of my thanks and praise

For you are the God who sees me

You are the God who knows me

And you are the God who loves me

Searching the world for anything that could fulfil my longings

Has only left me disappointed and destitute

Like a deer panting for streams of water

And finding nothing to quench that thirst

From a young age I sought after satisfaction

Many a time I thought I had found what I sought after

And was crushed and left brokenhearted

Was I wrong to be seeking such things?

If only I had known that my search was futile

At least as long as I searched here below

My eyes were fixed on things temporal

And not on things eternal

But Lord, your Spirit turned my gaze upward

And assured me that my search for solid joys

Was not a chasing after the wind

But was a search that could only be fulfilled in you

For who else can know me like you know me?

Who else searches my heart like you do,

And yet loves me despite all my iniquities and wrongs?

Is there anyone like you?

Who else has been with me even before the time of my birth?

Who else has seen me in my simplest form

When I knew nothing, saw nothing, felt nothing?

You knew me before I existed at all

What am I that you would even be mindful of me?

Why should you even care for me?

I am but a tiny speck in the fabric of the universe

A lowly and insignificant man in the universal scheme

Life for me is but a breath

But you are the one that always was, always is and ever will be

You are the one that gave me my first breath

And you are the one that sustains me till my last

Why is it that the God of all the earth

Would care to know my name

And even live as a lowly human to enact empathy

For one so useless as I?

What mind can fathom the works of your hands?

What heart can perceive the thoughts of the Lord?

They are beyond all imagination

Beyond anything within human reason

Lord, in all of life’s mysteries  

You have provided for me an anchor for my soul

Steadying me when my sails are caught by furious squalls

That threaten to steal me away

Lord, though my heart may at times waver

I know that in you my hope is firm and secure

And that you are all I need

For life, for health, and safety

Search me Lord 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