O God, You Search Me

 

 

O God, You Search Me

 

1. O God, you search me and you know me.
All my thoughts lie open to your gaze.
When I walk or lie down you are before me:
Ever the maker and keeper of my days.

 

2. You know my resting and my rising.
You discern my purpose from afar,
And with love ever lasting you besiege me:
In ev'ry moment of life or death, You are.

 

3. Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,
You have known its meaning through and through.
You are with me beyond my understanding:
God of my present, my past and future, too.

 

4. Although your Spirit is upon me,
Still I search for shelter from your light.
There is no here on earth I can escape you:
Even the darkness is radiant in your sight.

 

5. For you created me and shaped me,
Gave me life within my mother's womb.
For the wonder of who I am I praise you:
Safe in your hands, all creation is made new.