If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
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 should count them, they are more in number than the sand. This figure shows the thoughts of God to be altogether innumerable; for nothing can surpass in number the grains of sand which belt the main ocean and all the minor seas. The task of counting God's thoughts of love would be a never ending one.
God's omniscience, which might justly have watched over us to do us hurt, has instead been employed for our good; His counsels concerning us are precious in their depth and dear to us, yet so numerous we cannot count them. Every morning when we awake, we remain under His eye and care, safe and easy under His protection.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:17-24