Devotions for Week 1: David: Finding Peace When We Are Overwhelmed: Every Thread Matters (WATCH HERE)
Just after Christmas, our family went to see the new movie, “David.” The movie inspired this series and was very well done to capture the early life of David. David is known as “one after God’s own heart.” Yet, he was not born that way. God developed him through joys and challenges, overwhelm and obstacles. David’s confidence grows as a God-fearing young man and eventually into the kingship of Israel. He truly over time found peace with his Lord.
One of the songs in the movie is called, “Tapestry” (WATCH HERE).
The knitting project that God started in the womb is woven by the events and experiences of our life. It’s hard to know how the Lord is weaving every aspect of your life together, but as the master weaver, we can have trust that every thread he uses, every color he chooses is for your blessing and his glory.
There is a reason for every color, every thread in your story.
Peace comes when we remember who is weaving our life together. We may not always see the full picture. We may not always feel like the pattern makes sense, but God is the designer.
David knew and grew in this. Enjoy the psalm he wrote to capture these truths: Psalm 139.
Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Reflect: Which truth from the Psalm is a truth that you need most right now? How can the peace of knowing God is weaving your life together carry into your conversations and choices?
Prayer: Lord, when life feels overwhelming, anchor us in your promises. Help us trust that every thread matters because you are weaving our story in love. Through Jesus, our peace. Amen.