My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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
My substance was not hid from thee. The substantial part of my being was before thine all seeing eye; the bones which make my frame were put together by thine hand. The essential materials of my being before they were arranged were all within the range of thine eye. I was hidden from all human knowledge, but not from thee: thou hast ever been intimately acquainted with me.
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