Monday, May 19, 2014

Pslam 139

Two things grab me in Psalm 139:

1.      I love verse 14b “I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. “ The world and especially the devil always want to discredit God’s creation. Don’t let life to that to you—it insults God who created you. Sure admit your failures, but don’t be afraid to say was I am wonderfully created and is why--it good as gives glory to God

       Verse 13 raises a perplexing and important theological question. The bible teaches that deliberately damaging or destroying God’s creation is insulting too him. It like spitting on a artist painting since God is the creator. Read verse 13 Verse  "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
      
      Think about what destroying what God is creating in the womb says about abortion. God’s rights as the creator, always trump our rights. This means we don’t have a legitimate case to say it is a “Woman’s right to choose!!!” Choosing against what God creates in the womb insults the creator.

Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, e God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.


sfasrg

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