{"id":11228,"date":"2017-12-31T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T03:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2018-05-26T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:04:43","slug":"book-review-none-like-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=11228","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: None Like Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/41vf-iaOjlL._SX326_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11530\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/41vf-iaOjlL._SX326_BO1204203200_-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/41vf-iaOjlL._SX326_BO1204203200_-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/41vf-iaOjlL._SX326_BO1204203200_.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/None-Like-Him-Different-Thats\/dp\/1433549832\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1514778526&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=jen+wilkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>None Like Him<\/em><\/a> by Jen Wilkin may be my favorite book of 2017.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the last book I read this year.\u00a0 I finished it up earlier this evening (New Year&#8217;s Eve).\u00a0 I&#8217;m so grateful for the way that Jen approached this book with a desire to clearly communicate Scripture in a way that results in looking to the Lord with awe.\u00a0 Thankfully I read this book in the paperback version and was able to highlight and write notes while also writing in my Bible.\u00a0 As I was retyping the highlights to post below, I was able to experience the truths all over again.\u00a0 I look forward to returning to this book many times and know that I will e purchasing several copies to give away.\u00a0 Books that point us to drink deeply of the truth of God&#8217;s word are meant to be shared, discussed, and lived out.\u00a0 Great job Jen!<\/p>\n<p>I highlighted several things while reading and have typed those notes and quotes below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?--><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.\u201d Proverbs 31:30 p. 9<\/li>\n<li>Psalm 111:10 \u201cThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d p. 11<\/li>\n<li>Hebrews 12:28-29\u00a0&#8220;Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus slet us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.\u201d p. 12<\/li>\n<li>When we fear God rightly, we recognize him for who he truly is: a God of no limits, and therefore, utterly unlike anyone or anything we know. \u00a0This is the start of becoming wise. p. 13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>INFINITE: The God of No Limits<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Could we with ink the ocean fill<br \/>\nAnd were the skies of parchment made<br \/>\nWere every stalk on earth a quill<br \/>\nAnd every man a scribe by trade<br \/>\nTo write the love of God above<br \/>\nWould drain the ocean dry<br \/>\nNor could the scroll contain the whole<br \/>\nThough stretched from sky to sky\u201d The Love of God, Mercy Me p. 16<\/li>\n<li>We will believe ourselves to be without rival. \u00a0And that\u2019s where a measureless God begins to upend our sense of personal awesomeness. p. 19<\/li>\n<li>Job 11:7-9\u00a07 \u201cCan you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven\u2014what can you do? Deeper than Sheol\u2014what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.\u201d p. 19<\/li>\n<li>Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. Psalm 145:3 p. 19<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah 40:12\u201313 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel? (ESV) p. 21<\/li>\n<li>Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high, who looks far down on the heavens and the earth? (Psalm 113:5-6) p. 21<\/li>\n<li>Human beings created to bear the image of God instead aspire to become like God. \u00a0Designed to reflect his glory, we choose instead to rival it. p. 23<\/li>\n<li>We must recover the truth that was obscured by the Serpent: rather than being like God in his unlimited divinity, we are to be like God in our limited humanity. p. 25<\/li>\n<li>Our limits teach us the fear of the Lord. \u00a0They are reminders that keep us from falsely believing that we can be like God. \u00a0When I reach the limit of my strength, I worship the One whose strength never flags. \u00a0When I reach the limit of my reason, I worship the One whose reason is beyond searching out. p. 25<\/li>\n<li>But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. \u00a0Romans 5:20 p. 27<\/li>\n<li>And because of Christ, God urges us to learn to count others as Christ counted us: Doing nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. \u00a0Philippians 2:3 p. 28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>INCOMPREHENSIBLE: The God of Infinite Mystery<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. Psalm 145:3 p. 31<\/li>\n<li>God is incomprehensible. \u00a0This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known. It is the joyful duty, the delightful task of his children to spend their lives, both this one and the next, discovering who he is. \u00a0p. 33<\/li>\n<li>Psalm 139:1\u20136<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[1] O LORD, you have searched me and known me!<br \/>\n[2] You know when I sit down and when I rise up;<br \/>\nyou discern my thoughts from afar.<br \/>\n[3] You search out my path and my lying down<br \/>\nand are acquainted with all my ways.<br \/>\n[4] Even before a word is on my tongue,<br \/>\nbehold, O LORD, you know it altogether.<br \/>\n[5] You hem me in, behind and before,<br \/>\nand lay your hand upon me.<br \/>\n[6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;<br \/>\nit is high; I cannot attain it. (ESV) p. 38<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He reveals himself to those who seek him, and in seeing who he is, we see ourselves more clearly. \u00a0p. 39<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SELF-EXISTENT: The God of Infinite Creativity<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;All things bright and beautiful,\u00a0All creatures great and small,\u00a0All things wise and wonderful:\u00a0The Lord God made them all.\u201d Cecil F. Alexander, p. 43<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMan is a created being, a derived and contingent self, who of himself possesses nothing but is dependent each moment for his existence upon the One who created him after His own likeness. The fact of God is necessary to the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence. That God is everything and man nothing is a basic tenet of Christian faith and devotion.\u201d\u00a0\u2013A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1961),\u00a0\u00a0p. 28. p. 45<\/li>\n<li>For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. \u00a0So they are without excuse. \u00a0Romans 1:20 p. 47<\/li>\n<li>What do you have that you did not receive? 1 Corinthians 4:7 p. 51<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SELF-SUFFICIENT: The God of Infinite Provision<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cNor wanting, nor wasting, thou rules in might.\u201d Walter Chalmers Smith, p. 57<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI need thee every hours, most gracious Lord.\u201d Annie S. Hawks, p. 57<\/li>\n<li>Acts 17:24\u201325 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. (ESV) p. 59<\/li>\n<li>If God needed anything at all outside himself, he would be capable of being controlled by that need. \u00a0A need is a limit, and as we have seen, God has no limits. \u00a0Because he needs nothing outside himself, he cannot be controlled or coerced, manipulated or blackmailed by another who possesses what he lacks. p. 61<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ETERNAL: The God of Infinite Days<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>He has made everything beautiful in its time. \u00a0Also, he has put eternity into man\u2019s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. \u00a0Ecclesiastes 3:11 p. 72<\/li>\n<li>When we work to redeem the time, we reflect our Creator. \u00a0God is the ultimate time-redeemer: He redeems all of time, and he redeems at just the right time. \u00a0We are charged with redeeming the years he has given to us as a reasonable act of worship. p. 77<\/li>\n<li>So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 p. 78<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>IMMUTABLE: The God of Infinite Sameness<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThou changest not, thy compassions they fail not. \u00a0As thou hast been, thou forever wilt be.\u201d Thomas Chisholm p. 83<\/li>\n<li>Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. \u00a0Hebrews 13:8 p. 84<\/li>\n<li>James celebrates the goodness of God \u201cwith whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.\u201d James 1:17 p. 84<\/li>\n<li>Just as my assurance of salvation rests in the fact that God cannot change, my hope of sanctification rests in the fact that I can. \u00a0p. 87<\/li>\n<li>There is no rock but the Rock of our salvation. p. 91<\/li>\n<li>Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for you have been my refuge. Psalm 61:2 p. 91<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>OMNIPRESENT: The God of Infinite Place<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWithin thy circling power I stand;<br \/>\nOn every side I find they hand;<br \/>\nAwake, asleep, at home, abroad,<br \/>\nI am surrounded still with God.\u201d Isaac Watts, p. 93<\/li>\n<li>By tethering our spirits to a body, God decrees that we will be present where we are present, and nowhere else. \u00a0Yet God, who is spirit, is able to be everywhere fully present. \u00a0p. 94<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn him we live and move and have our being.\u201d Acts 17:28 p. 96<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. \u00a0But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.\u201d Philippians 1:23-24 p. 100<\/li>\n<li>God sees. \u00a0God is present. \u00a0Nothing is hidden. \u00a0And this is cause not just for vigilance, but for assurance, the most blessed assurance the human heart can know. p. 102<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is the Lord who goes before you. \u00a0He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. \u00a0Do not fear or be dismayed.\u201d Deuteronomy 31:8 p. 103<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>OMNISCIENT: The God of Infinite Knowledge<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cHe knows, yes, he knows,<br \/>\nWhy not trust in him then,<br \/>\nAnd confide joys and woes<br \/>\nTo the Savior of men?\u201d Georgia C. Elliott, p. 107<\/li>\n<li>Because God knows all things perfectly, He knows no thing better than the other thing, but all things equally well. He never discovers anything. He is never surprised, never amazed. He never wonders about anything nor (except when drawing men out for their own good) does He seek information or ask questions.\u2013A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1961), 56-57. p. 110<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis God\u2014his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.\u201d Psalm 18:30 p. 116<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou have searched me, Lord, and you know me. \u00a0You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. \u00a0You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.\u201d Psalm 139:1-3 p. 117<\/li>\n<li>Because God holds all knowledge, we don\u2019t have to. p. 118<\/li>\n<li>Resting at the end of the book of Psalms, only three verses in length, is Psalm 131. \u00a0David gives a picture of a heart at rest before God, free from the anxiety of human not-knowing\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Psalm 131 O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. \u00a0O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. (ESV) p. 119<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.\u201d (Deuteronomy 29:29) p. 120<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>OMNIPOTENT: The God of Infinite Power<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMost High, omnipotent, good Lord, to thee be ceaseless praise outpoured, and blessing without measure.\u201d St. Francis of Assisi p. 123<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?\u201d Matthew 8:27 p. 125<\/li>\n<li>In Revelation 19:6 the multitude at the marriage supper of the Lamb hails God as omnipotent: \u201cHallelujah! \u00a0For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.\u201d p. 125<\/li>\n<li>Our words have the power of life and death (Proverbs 18:21). \u00a0Those who recognize this delegated power will use them in life-giving ways for the voiceless. p. 133<\/li>\n<li>The truth of God\u2019s limitless power would be absolutely terrifying were it not paired with the truth of his limitless goodness. \u00a0p. 135<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SOVEREIGN: The God of Infinite Rule<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Romans 13:1 tells us to submit to earthly authorities: \u201cFor there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.\u201d p. 143<\/li>\n<li>I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:2 p. 144<\/li>\n<li>Lesser forms of control reveal themselves in as an inability to admit we are wrong, a need to have the final word, a need to have the upper hand, a \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d attitude. \u00a0Whether we behave this way toward a child, a spouse, a friend, or a coworker, we are exercising control in an unhealthy way.\u201d p. 147<\/li>\n<li>1 Chronicles 29:11\u201312 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. (ESV) p. 149<\/li>\n<li>The redeemed obediently submit thought, word, and deed to their heavenly Ruler, trusting uncertainty to him who \u201cworks all things according to the counsel of his will\u201d Ephesians 1:11 p. 149<\/li>\n<li>Behold, I am making all things new. Revelation 21:5 p. 150<\/li>\n<li>Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Psalm 115:3 p. 150<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14 p. 153<\/li>\n<li>Our primary problem as Christian women is not that we lack self-worth, not that we lack a sense of significance. \u00a0It\u2019s that we lack awe. p. 154<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Without question, the subject of Psalm 139 is not us. \u00a0It is God.<\/div>\n<div>He searches, knows, discerns\u2014omniscient.<\/div>\n<div>He is behind and before\u2014eternal.<\/div>\n<div>He is beyond human reckoning\u2014incomprehensible.<\/div>\n<div>He is near and far, high and low\u2014omnipresent.<\/div>\n<div>His right hand sustains\u2014self-sufficient.<\/div>\n<div>He creates life\u2014self-existent.<\/div>\n<div>He does wondrous works\u2014omnipotent.<\/div>\n<div>He ordains each day\u2014sovereign.<\/div>\n<div>He is immeasurable\u2014infinite.<\/div>\n<div>He endures\u2014immutable. p. 157<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Psalm 139<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[1] O LORD, you have searched me and known me!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[2] You know when I sit down and when I rise up;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you discern my thoughts from afar.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[3] You search out my path and my lying down<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and are acquainted with all my ways.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[4] Even before a word is on my tongue,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[5] You hem me in, behind and before,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and lay your hand upon me.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0it is high; I cannot attain it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[7] Where shall I go from your Spirit?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or where shall I flee from your presence?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[8] If I ascend to heaven, you are there!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[9] If I take the wings of the morning<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[10] even there your hand shall lead me,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and your right hand shall hold me.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[11] If I say, \u201cSurely the darkness shall cover me,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the light about me be night,\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[12] even the darkness is not dark to you;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the night is bright as the day,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for darkness is as light with you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[13] For you formed my inward parts;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you knitted me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wonderful are your works;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my soul knows it very well.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[15] My frame was not hidden from you,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0when I was being made in secret,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0intricately woven in the depths of the earth.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[16] Your eyes saw my unformed substance;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in your book were written, every one of them,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the days that were formed for me,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0when as yet there was none of them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[17] How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How vast is the sum of them!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[18] If I would count them, they are more than the sand.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I awake, and I am still with you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[19] Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O men of blood, depart from me!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[20] They speak against you with malicious intent;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0your enemies take your name in vain.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[21] Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[22] I hate them with complete hatred;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I count them my enemies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[23] Search me, O God, and know my heart!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Try me and know my thoughts!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[24] And see if there be any grievous way in me,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and lead me in the way everlasting! 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