Behold! “IAM” With you, “Always,”Eventillthe end of time.
Brendan Mc Crossan
Behold! “IAM” With you, “Always,”Eventillthe end of time.
Brendan Mc Crossan
139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
The word always has an astounding variety of meanings all saying the same thing, elaborating with distinguish. Let’s look at the word itself first. Always, meaning, forever, also meaning, for all time, for eternity, forever and a day, at all times, all the time, constantly, persistently, and relentlessly into infinity.
Jesus said to us his future disciples that he would be with us always, into infinity. He never said he would take a little holiday now and then, especially when were going through some trial or disaster. No! He said; always, forever and a day.
139:5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. {before me and behind me, and your hand is upon me always}
139:2Thou knows my sitting down and mine uprising, thou understand my thought afar 139:3off.Thou compasses’ my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my 139:4ways.For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knows it altogether.
Jesus said he would never leave us, and his word in Matthew-28-10 confirms that fact, that truth for us. And in psalm-139Psalm 139 139:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
139:7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Another===============================================================translationreads; Matthew-28-20- “behold I am with you always, even till the end of time.”
Matthew-28-20 - “be sure of this, that I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”
1-Corinthians-6-17- if you give yourself to the lord, you and Christ are joined together as one person. So you see even though my feelings tell me Jesus has gone off on some wee holiday to some far off Galaxy, the truth is he and I are still joined together as one person, were spiritually joined together, there is only one thing telling me that he is not here when I need him, and that is my feelings, not the truth. The truth is there whether or not my feelings are right or wrong.
139:8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there.
Have you ever had those days when you just felt that the lord was nowhere to be found, that you were feeling so empty, all of us have had those days, in fact most days are like that for some of us, others know the lord is always with them, I wish I was one of those. Intellectually I know he is always with me but do I feel his close and personal touch? Occasionally, mostly never, but you know whether I feel the lords presence with me or not the fact remains he is with me always, into infinity, persistently, never leaving, never going on an errand, leaving me alone for even a moment. He can’t leave me; he said I am joined together with him;
But both translations mean exactly the same, and the important part is Jesus himself is saying those words to us, “I am with you always,”
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of 139:18them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. This text is taken from the King James old version bible and I changed some of the words to fit in with modern talking, and added in explanations in brackets} but the word of God is still the Heresame.thePsalmist was telling everyone that every moment of every day is known to God about us, that even if we fled to Hell itself he would be still there with you, that no matter what, you cannot get away from God or he you either; he bound himself by a contract through Jesus saying; be sure of this, I will be with you always. He made a written contract with you the believer that he would never leave you for even one second, and that it would be only your feelings that would make you think he was gone away. But as the Psalm writer himself said even if you went into hell itself then Jesus would be there with you, behold I am with you Allalways.ways; is another way to look at “always,” he is not here in some ways, or other ways, possible ways, but all-ways or always. Jesus said emphatically, Behold “I am” with you always. Who does the Bible call “I AM?” Answer = God. So Jesus is making at least two profound statements here in this simple line of scripture. He is stating for fact that – “I AM” is with you – i.e. God – and I AM, is always with you, always, never leaving even for a second. Feelings tell us Jesus left us on our own, to the mercy of the Devil and as we know he has no mercy in him. We fail to see the significance of what Jesus said. “Be sure of this;” you don’t have to wonder or doubt, but be sure. Our feelings lie to us; they tell us Jesus is gone away because we just sinned, “a lie!” Jesus left because we were selfish, “a lie!” Jesus left us because we weren’t kind to someone, “a lie!” Jesus left us because we weren’t good enough, “a lie!” Jesus left because we weren’t worthy or holy, or saintly, or because we didn’t measure up to his goodness, all “a lie!” Jesus never leaves you, you may feel like you left him and even that is not true, because he said you were joined together with him for infinity. You can’t get rid of Jesus even if you wanted to because he said in the Psalm he will follow you to Hell itself, and actually did when
139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. {you are in control, and covered me in my mother’s womb}
139:9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. {your right hand shall hold me, always}
139:17
Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfected; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. {your eyes see me and in your book all my life was written}
139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about 139:12me.Yea, the darkness hides not from thee; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knows right well.
139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. {my being was not hidden from you 139:16ever}
he descended into Hell and defeated Satan the Devil, you were there somehow or other supernaturally, because Jesus died for all people since the beginning and the very end, not a soul was left out, they were all in Satan’s clutches, and were sinners far from God but Jesus died for you, defeated Satan for you and rose victorious for you, once and for all.
Let’s take the word “behold” and see what it means exactly in all its fullness. Behold, observe, watch, take a look at, view, consider, regard; those words make up the meaning of the word “behold” and when you see them all together like this it gives you a better understanding of what Jesus said.
Observe, I am with you always, watch, I am with you always; take a look, I am with you always; view, I am with you always; consider, I am with you always; regard I am with you always, even till the end of time.
When you look at God’s word from the perspective of God you begin to see the depth of love God the father has poured out on us. God always speaks to us from a loving perspective, not from an angry or condemnation view, he is always trying to get us to see how much he loves us and he always wants to reassure us of his love and mercy and forgiveness. God created us out of longing to have someone to fellowship with, someone who can think like him, love like him and talk to, someone to shower out his blessings and power and mercy and also to hang around with for eternity. God says in his word that we can come right into the throne room where he sits permanent ruling the galaxies, holding universes in his thoughts, and he says, son / daughter, come into my presence boldly and receive a great welcome from him. And out of all those galaxies and universes he thinks of us, you and me always, though he is controlling those galaxies and universes he still has time for us to come and talk with him on a personal level, father to son, or father to daughter; he always has time to listen to us, to speak to us and to help us when we get into difficulty. Behold I am with you always says Jesus, I never go away from you ever, no matter what is happening in your life, I always look at my children as holy and in no other way, and my thoughts are always with them no matter where they go, when I said, “ behold I am with you always, I meant it, you can never be lost to me says the lord, for I know where you are every mille second of the day or night, “behold I am—with you—always, forever into eternity, into infinity, I never will leave you even for a millionth of a second, If God stopped thinking of us for even one millionth of a second the earth would cease to exist and of course so would we. We are loved beyond human comprehension, beyond human understanding, beyond anything we could ever imagine, and God desires to assure us of his constant care and love, by telling us his son Jesus, is always with us always, always in every way. Such love God has for us, to never cease to be with us always. Meditate on this as often as you can for the revelation of what our amazing heavenly Father is telling us, behold, Jesus is always with us.
Matthew-28-20- “behold I am with you always, even till the end of time.”