If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
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
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. If I could fly with all swiftness, and find a habitation where the mariner has not yet ploughed the deep, yet I could not reach the boundaries of the divine presence.
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