For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you. (Psalm 139:13-18) We have looked at God’s omniscience and omnipresence. Today is about omnipotence. As we think about God’s power, we tend to think in big terms. God’s omnipotence was involved in His crea...
W here can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. (Psalm 139:7-12) Normally, when I read this section of this psalm, I think in terms of rebellion against God. That’s certainly part of what’s here. It may be all of what’s here. But today, I’m thinking a little differently. When things go wrong in our lives, we absolutely turn toward God. Sometimes, however, I think we try to run away from the things that go wrong without noticing that God is in them. Or, w...