"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made !"

 

Psalm 139:1-16 "O LORD, THOU hast searched me, and known me. THOU knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, THOU understandest my thought afar off. THOU compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, THOU knowest it altogether.

THOU hast beset me behind and before, and laid THINE hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from THY SPIRIT ? or whither shall I flee from THY presence ? If I ascend up into Heaven, THOU art there: if I make my bed in Hell, behold, THOU art there.

 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall THY hand lead me, and THY right hand shall hold me. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from THEE; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to THEE.

For THOU hast possessed my reins: THOU hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise THEE; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are THY works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from THEE, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the Earth. THINE eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in THY book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

     Psalm 139 is a wonderful expression of GOD's omniscience (vv.1-6) and omnipresence (vv.7-12) and of HIS power and providence (vv.13-16). David acknowledged that it was GOD WHO laid the foundation of his being, articulating that truth in these words, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (v.14 pictured at top of post) and proclaiming, "Marvelous are THY works !" Although what was taking place within the womb of David's mother could not be seen by others, his "substance" (body) was not hidden from GOD's eyes, for HE saw the secret knitting together of David inside his mother's body (vv.15-16 pictured above). It is no wonder that he burst forth in exclamation of awe and praise ! 

     On a personal level, my wife and I were reminded of the manifestation of GOD's wonderful work with the recent birth of our first great-grandchild. Through the marvel of ultrasound, we had actually seen her and heard her heartbeat at several different stages of her development within the womb, but oh, what joy filled our hearts to see pictures of a perfectly formed and healthy baby girl in the arms of her mother and father ! Commentator Adam Clarke said, "The texture of the human body is the most complicated and curious that can be conceived. It is, indeed, wonderfully made; and it is withal so exquisitely nice and delicate, that the slightest accident may impair or destroy in a moment some of the parts essentially necessary to the continuance of life; therefore we are fearfully made. And GOD has done so to show us our frailty, that we should walk with death, keeping life in view; and feel the necessity of depending on the all-wise . . . superintending care and providence of GOD."  Great is our CREATOR ! JED

Your servant in CHRIST,

Julie

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