Night Vision: Psalm 139:13-16, NLT
But even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
Psalm 139:13-16, NLT
The known (and unknown) universe is thoroughly known by Jehovah God. After all He is the Architectural and Contractor of vast galaxies we have yet to discover. And there are billions.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/universe-size/
V. 12, invisibility will never be the lot of the believer. Even the blackest night is like a bright spotlight that easily penetrates the gloom of midnight. “Darkness and light are the same to you.” God will never be hampered by the loss of visibility or dullness of perception. He even catches the tiniest of details. .
V. 13, carries the bulk of scripture on personal creation. Each of are very exclusive, “one-of-a-kind” creatures. As a fetus in your mother’s womb, God knit you together. He actually crocheted you. Your brain, spine, and your hands and eyes, this is amazing!
V. 14, “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.”
The idea of complexity really throws us as humans. As ideas and thoughts grow in intricacy we are forced to find outside help. My laptop that I’m writing on right now is incredibly smart. It does thousands of hard things very fast. David uses two words of interest– wonderful and marvelous.
V. 15, He is watching, seeing the little details of fetal development. Recently much has been made of babies being born in a test tube. The principle is alien to my thinking. But I also know that medical advances can take on a strange cast. I think about x-rays, blood transfusions and penicillin and how amazing it all seemed in its day. I suppose if it has “life” then God is involved.
V. 16, “You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.”
There a sense of details being set up in advance, so a schedule is planned. God has given us an itinerary to follow.
1) There is an intimacy involved. 2) There is a book of records. 3) Things come in days– sequential and chronological. 4) This all has been a long time ago, by a God who loves us.
Ybic,
Bryan
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God may “see” details, but what does that matter to us? Does God make the relevance of details known to us? No. Why should we believe what we do here on earth to have eternal significance if we have no idea what the spiritual consequences are for choosing Smuckers over Safeway brand jelly? I have spend a good part of my life toiling over such decisions. But, I’m sure they have no eternal significance. I wish they did, so I would know that I wasn’t wasting my time. But, we are forced to make such trivial decisions every day. Regular, Plus, or Premium? Would you like paper or plastic? Heaven or hell? What’s the difference? God is simply not concerned with the details of our lives. He lets lots of crap pass for His perfect will. To hell with all that. Intimacy, yes–but He’s only f**king with us. This is not what I would call making love.
I just wish I had more time to be able to read all of these. I feel like I’m missing out (sigh). Will try to keep up. This is good stuff.
Lots have said this. There is a lot of good stuff out there. But I did decide to shorten each blog, by reducing the verses covered. I figure that will make each post 20% shorter, lol. TY for reading!
ybic,
Bryan