“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

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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