For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
David refuses the hiding places where men cloak themselves in lies. He fixes on a truth that strips all pretense bare: nothing escapes God's sight, not because He watches from afar, but because He shaped us bone by bone in darkness and cannot be ignorant of what He has made.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:1-24
God is not merely an observer of your inmost self; He is the Lord and Master of it, as a proprietor in his own house. Before you drew breath, He hid you in the womb as a treasure, caring for you in that darkest chamber where no eye but His could see. This is the intimacy of His dominion over you.
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If God is Spirit, our hope of hiding from Him is folly. Not that David wished to flee, he desired nothing more than closeness to God. But suppose a man were mad enough to think escape possible: heaven and earth are both His; He fills them both; nowhere exists where His presence is not.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:7-16