Psalm 139 – Reflections from Childhood and Being a Father: 2 Lessons about Love

My name is Ray and I along with my wife Jackie and Daniel and Sora are part
of Life Baptist Church of Pasadena.  We all met in college many years ago and we
have been ministering to college and graduate students ever since.  

The problem with college and grad students are two-fold.  One, they are
boring because they have limited life experience.  Two, they don’t know they are
boring and think they are so interesting.  And they think they have life figured
out so they don’t have to listen to older, wiser people like me.  Some college
students even think they are God’s gift to humanity – we’ve all met people like
that who thought they could do no wrong.

I am very excited to be here and I am eager to get to know each of you and
hear your life stories.  I am sure God has just as much to teach me through all
of you as I have things to share about God.  

 

We moved here to Alhambra a year and a half ago to plant a church in
Pasadena.  And in recent months we have been praying about how we can reach out
to this community.  And that’s why we are here.

All of us actually live
about 2 blocks from here and it is our prayer that we will end up doing far more
than provide a sermon and a few hymns once a month.  We pray that we can get to
know one another and develop friendships in the Lord.

Please turn with me to Psalm 139:13-16

 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.