Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Here omnipresence is the theme, —a truth to which omniscience naturally leads up. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Not that the Psalmist wished to go from God, or to avoid the power of the divine life; but he asks this question to set forth the fact that no one can escape from the all pervading being and observation of the Great Invisible Spirit.
The poet recites the whole condition of human existence: sitting and rising, thinking and walking, lying down and waking. God's knowledge encompasses the entire sum of our spiritual life and all our actions, and this scrutiny is never suspended but constantly exercised, an ever-present knowledge seeing into our thoughts from afar.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 139:2-7
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there,.... No man hath ascended or can ascend to heaven of himself; it is an hyperbolical expression, as are those that follow; none but Christ has ascended to heaven by his own power, who descended from it; saints hope to go there at death, and, when they do, they find God there; that is his habitation, his...