Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
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
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.
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