Season & Savor: Where Can I Go

Welcome to Season & Savor Sunday — because feeding our bodies is not enough.

“Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?”
Psalm 139:7 (NIV)

I’ve had Ellie Holcomb’s song “Where Can I Go” (Psalm 139) on repeat for months now. If you haven’t heard it, stop reading for three minutes and go listen first. I’ll wait.

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You know the kind of song that just resonates, that stops you mid-task and makes you sit still for a second? That’s this one for me. It’s the kind of song that when I wake in the middle of the night with worries pressing in, it comes flooding back, and I fall right back into a restful sleep. Even there…

There’s something about hearing this psalm sung instead of just read. David wrote it as a question he already knew the answer to. Where can I go to get away from You? Nowhere. Not the highest heaven, not the deepest sea, not the darkest night. And instead of that being a scary thought, a God I can’t hide from, it becomes the most comforting one I know. He’s not distant, waiting for me to find my way back to Him. He’s already there, wherever there is.

Here’s what you may not realize while you’re singing along in your car: you’re memorizing Scripture without even trying. “I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11 (NIV). That’s what a song like this does. It hides God’s word in you, quietly, a few lines at a time, so that on the hard days, when you don’t have the energy to open a Bible or form a prayer, it comes flooding back anyway. It’s already in there. Paul says almost the same thing in Colossians: “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly… as you sing psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” Colossians 3:16 (NIV) Singing isn’t a break from Scripture. It’s one of the ways it gets in.

I don’t know what your week looks like. Maybe it’s been a good one, easy, full. Maybe it’s been the kind you’re just trying to get through. Either way, this song has been my reminder that I’m never doing it alone, and neither are you.

Psalm 139 has meant more to Brad and me than I can fit into one post, and I do want to share more of that story with you at some point, just not quite yet. For now, this week, simple as that: go listen to the song, sit with Psalm 139 for a few minutes, and let it remind you that wherever you are today, He’s already there too.

Lord, thank You for never being far. Meet us right where we are this week. Amen.

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~ With grace at the table, and beyond

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