# @jbyrne_photography on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C9oBqGNsq2R
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20835129-jbyrne-photography-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-07-20T01:04:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jeremy Byrne (@jbyrne_photography) — https://gondola.cc/jbyrne_photography

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“O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.” -Psalm 139:1-3

I love going out on hikes through God’s creation, most, if not all, have been solo, save for the presence of the Lord, who I know is with me and will guide me. God isn’t some passive thing or a charm that you hold on to, he is a real and mighty being. He is immensely personal and desires a relationship with you. The one who watches out for you, knows what you are doing and what you are thinking. Thus, he is capable of relating to you, having the knowledge of your experience, as well as Jesus having experienced our struggles himself. When we sit and rest, God sees us, when we lie down in pain, exhaustion, sorrow, etc., he sees us. He knows our deep feelings. We will struggle with things and want to just sit down and cry, wondering how we will rise up and move forward, but the LORD knows me; the LORD will be beside me in the unknown. You are enough, O God, you know me, you know where I am, and what I’m going through. You will not forsake me; you will search out my path ahead of me, protecting me, guiding me, and being that presence in the loneliness.
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