Search me, O God

Words: Leigh Newton based on Psalm 139
Music: Leigh Newton based on Ludwig van Beethoven (La Pathetique)

1. Search me O God
   and know my anxious heart.
   Behind me and before me,
   you lay your hand upon me.
   
2. Where might I hide
   to flee you tender touch?
   No darkness or the ocean
   hides me from your devotion.
   
   Chorus
   You know my every need,
   You know my thoughts, my joy, my crying,
   God your wisdom ways
   Surround me at my birth, my dying.
   
3. Woven by you
   deep in my mother’s womb.
   That moment of conception
   you knew my life’s direction.
   
4. Search me, O God
   and purify my ways.
   O teach me love surpassing,
   guide me in all that’s lasting.
   
   Chorus
   
   Verse 1.