“God is 'capricious,
mean-minded and stupid”
Life behind the lyrics of the Psalms
‘When we feel that God has forgotten us’
Psalm 139
God knows everything – His Omniscience
China’s Tianhe-2 super computer
God knows everything – His Omniscience
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered
and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account
Heb 4:13
God knows everything – His Omniscience
He knows me personally
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me
Psalm 139:1
God knows everything – His Omniscience
He knows my every movement
You know when I sit and when I rise … You discern my going out and my lying
down; you are familiar with all my ways
Psalm 139:2a, 3
God knows everything – His Omniscience
He knows my every thought
you perceive my thoughts from afar
Psalm 139:2b
God knows everything – His Omniscience
He knows my every word
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely
Psalm 139:4
God knows everything – His Omniscience
David’s response
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain
Psalm 139:6
God is everywhere – His Omnipresence
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, even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
God is everywhere – His Omnipresence
If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness
is as light to you
Psalm 139:7-12
God is everywhere – His Omnipresence
The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good
Proverbs 15:3
“We may ignore, but we cannot evade the presence
of God. The world is crowded with Him”
C S Lewis
God is everywhere – His Omnipresence
I am God’s creation
He created me using a unique pattern
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
I am God’s creation
He created me using a unique pattern
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.
Your eyes saw my unformed body
Psalm 139:13-15
I am God’s creation
He has been aware of me all of my life
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be
Psalm 139:16a
I am God’s creation
He is constantly thinking about me
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, would outnumber the grains of sand …
Psalm 139:17-18
David’s prayer
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting
Psalm 139:23-24