Prepared for Psalms Group, May 2, 2021
“No escape, no regrets, no compromise.” That’s a description of Psalm 139. Filled with good theology about God’s omniscience (139:1-6), omnipresence (139:7-12), creatorship (139:13-18), and holiness (139:19-24), these four stanzas of Psalm 139 arecomplex and intimate, and theological abstractions are “far from its heart.” In fact, you can label these stanzas, “God’s complete knowledge of me (1-6),” “God with me in every place (7-12),” “God’s sovereign ownership of every part of me (13-18),” and “God’s will that I be like him (19-24).” (Motyer, New Bible Commentary, 578)