Are your thoughts all over the place?

Do you ever have a bunch of thoughts come bombarding you — uncertainties?  Frustrations?  Problems too complex to solve??

When the Psalmist wrote these words in Psalm 139, it seems like he is talking about physical places.  But I haven’t gone anywhere lately and yet it seems I have been everywhere.  My mind seems at times to be going in a zillion different directions.   So what if these words pertain to that as well?

I look behind me and you’re there,

    then up ahead and you’re there, too—

    your reassuring presence, coming and going.

This is too much, too wonderful—

    I can’t take it all in!

Wherever we go physically and wherever our minds take us, God is there.   Right there providing assurance, peace, and wisdom if we seek it.

Above and below me

Before and behind me….

Christ be all around me….