Psalm 139 English Standard Version (ESV)
To the choirmaster. A
Psalm of David.
139
O Lord, you have
searched me and known me!
2
You know when I sit
down and when I rise up;
you
discern my thoughts from afar.
3
You search out my path
and my lying down
and
are acquainted with all my ways.
4
Even before a word is
on my tongue,
behold,
O Lord, you know it altogether.
5
You hem me in, behind
and before,
and
lay your hand upon me.
6
Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me;
it
is high; I cannot attain it.
7
Where shall I go from
your Spirit?
Or
where shall I flee from your presence?
8
If I ascend to heaven,
you are there!
If
I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9
If I take the wings of
the morning
and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10
even there your hand
shall lead me,
and
your right hand shall hold me.
11
If I say, “Surely the
darkness shall cover me,
and
the light about me be night,”
12
even the darkness is
not dark to you;
the
night is bright as the day,
for
darkness is as light with you.
13
For you formed my
inward parts;
you
knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14
I praise you, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
Wonderful
are your works;
my
soul knows it very well.
15
My frame was not hidden
from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately
woven in the depths of the earth.
16
Your eyes saw my
unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the
days that were formed for me,
when
as yet there was none of them.
17
How precious to me are
your thoughts, O God!
How
vast is the sum of them!
18
If I would count them,
they are more than the sand.
I
awake, and I am still with you.
19
Oh that you would slay
the wicked, O God!
O
men of blood, depart from me!
20
They speak against you
with malicious intent;
your
enemies take your name in vain.[b]
21
Do I not hate those who
hate you, O Lord?
And
do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22
I hate them with
complete hatred;
I
count them my enemies.
23
Search me, O God, and
know my heart!
Try
me and know my thoughts![c]
24
And see if there be any
grievous way in me,
and
lead me in the way everlasting!
This,
to me, is the most beautiful Psalm ever written and the content is so amazing
to me. To think, when no one else even
knew I was conceived and I was growing inside my mother’s womb (before she even
knew that), God knew who I was and He was forming me into His creation. Wow, I have literally never been alone.
Every
time I read this Psalm I think of the DNA strand. Does it not look like a knitting stitch? How would David know that? Yet his description of how he was knitted in
our mother’s womb is so amazing to me. 
When
one of my girls was little she prayed a prayer to God but she did it very
quietly. She conveyed to her sister that
she wasn’t sure if God heard her or not but her sister reassured her that God
can hear everything. Yes, indeed He can,
He can even hear our thoughts!!! In
fact, He knows our thoughts and our words even before they are even
formed. Wow, He is an amazing God.
What’s
more, He even knows where I am. I have
to think back in the Garden when Adam and Eve were trying to hide from God,
they couldn’t. It reminds me of playing
hide and seek with a 2 year old who hides in plan sight but we still ask,
“where are you?” . We can’t hide from
God, we are in plan sight and He is always there with us. Like we saw in our last passage He holds us
in high regard! Yet those who are
haughty He knows from afar. Notice that
once again, He still knows where they are but He is far from them. It is simply a choice that we have to make as
to whether He is near to us or far away but we can never escape His presence. Besides, who would want to? Only the ones who are haughty and they can’t
even escape Him totally.
We
all have enemies. Some of those enemies
of life are just the everyday happenings of life. It could be disease, substance dependence,
relationships, workplace, time or lack thereof, and the list goes on. Some of our enemies are people who have hurt
us, those with whom it is hard to forgive, those whom we find it hard to
trust. David’s enemy was the king, who
David had faithfully served, yet the king sought out to kill him. Whatever or whomever your enemy is, God knows. He has it under control and He is right there
with you. Take His hand, He is seeking
you, you must seek Him with all your heart.
Seeking
Him with all my heart,
Sheila
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