Today’s Word
Continuity
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. Psalm 139:18 NASB Still– Yesterday we noticed a shift in the emotional direction of this poem. David’s initial concerns about the constraint of divine knowing have changed to praise for God’s revelation. We discovered that David considers God’s purpose intrinsically valuable. He…
The Size of Knowing
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Psalm 139:17 NASB Vast– David is the poet who looked up to the heavens and declared, “What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?” Nevertheless, David insists that God created Man…
Predestination
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16 NASB Ordained– Does God know everything you will do before you are born, before you make a single choice? Does He know all men’s choices from eternity past? And…
Chthonic Mysteries
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Psalm 139:15 NASB In the depths of the earth– Did you think the Psalmist was writing about personal, human birth? Perhaps you even read it as God’s inspired statement about your birth. The Psalmist certainly is…
Eye of the Beholder
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14 A note: This went out yesterday. It wasn’t supposed to, but with plenty of time zones to traverse, I just got the day wrong. So here it is on the…
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