Rabbi Schneider - Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear
Many of us are familiar with Psalm 139, where David talks about how he's been fearfully and wonderfully made and how precious are the thoughts of the Lord towards him. It's such a beautiful psalm. We've got a little background noise. A lawn is getting mowed here, so forgive us for that.
But I want to look at a specific verse in Psalm 139 today. It says this: "Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts".
What is David saying here? He's saying, "Lord, I want You to expose in me and to be intimately acquainted with every single thought of my heart. I want Your love to me to penetrate the deepest part of my being. I want Your love for me and the pathway of Your love into my life to go to the deepest level that not an impulse of my heart or of my mind escapes Your light".
And David realized that as the Lord penetrated his life down to the very center and core of his being, that the result of that would be that David would become whole.
So, Father, we invite You in today. You said, Yeshua, that You stand at the door of our heart and are knocking and that if we would open up, that You would come in and sup with us and dine with us and have fellowship with us. And we invite You in right now, just as David did to the deepest center of our very being, that we would know You at the core and center of our hearts, that we would know, Father God, how intimately You love us and how deeply You care, how intimately acquainted You are with all our ways, that there is not anything in our life, God, that's outside of Your love. Father, we want to feel sealed and contained by You, by Your love, and by Your protection. Father, we love You today. We need you. Your word says perfect love casteth out all fear. Father, help us to know Your perfect love and find complete trust and rest in that revelation. In Yeshua's name. Father, we need You today. Enlighten us to understand the comprehensiveness of Your love that's beyond understanding in the natural.