Season Of Creation 3: Psalm 139. God’s Thoughts Are Beyond Our Understanding And That God Wants Good For All He Has Created. Series

Season of Creation 3

Psalm 139 is a great Psalm, penned by David as he had this revelation of the greatness

of God the vastness of God’s abilities and the thoughts of God. King David produced

this amazing piece of prose.

His is a very personal prayer to the creator of the universe, “O Lord, you have searched

me and you know me “, “Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O

Lord”, “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?” This is a

passage where the writer makes it all about themselves and God, and all about God

and themself. Me, I and my, are used over and over as David the King speaks out his

understanding of his place before the King of Kings. In this passage we in a position too

understand David’s relationship with God…that even the King of the United Kingdom of

Israel desired to understand his creator and wondered at the mind of God.

Again, we read that David understood that, if he believed that in darkness he could hide,

even in that place he was not hidden from God, none of us is. He follows this by

explaining that it was God who created him; knit him together in his mother’s womb.

That he praises God because he is wonderfully complex, that God’s workmanship is

marvelous. I want to point out here that you are all fearfully and wonderfully made. That

each of you is an awesome creation. I will get back to that soon.

This Psalm is noted among theologians as being the crown of Psalms, and one of the

best loved of all the Psalms and I could go as far as to say parts of scripture. It points us

to our place before God our creator, it tells us of how we stand before Him, that we are

fearfully and wonderfully made. That even in this fallen world; God still made us, still

recognises our worth as being immense, all his works are wonderful. None of us are

random events. We may have come from families that are dysfunctional. Some may

have had a start we would rather forget, insecurities that dig us in the ribs, disabilities

that impede, but we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. Unique and here for a

purpose, for such a time as this!

As a species our uniqueness in things such as speech, upright statue, our ability to

move our thumbs across our hands and small and ring fingers to our thumbs give us a

remarkably strong grip (interestingly many primates have opposable thumbs but unlike

them we do not have opposable big toes). We don’t have the largest brains relative to

body size — many birds have brains that make up more than 8 percent of their body

weight, compared to only 2.5 percent for humans (http://www.livescience.com/15689-

evolution-human-special-species.html) (So I guess when someone gets called a bird

brain it’s a compliment) and some species of ants 14-15% (Source: Brain–body mass

ratio - Wikipedia). But we are able to think and reason beyond the rest of the animal

kingdom. On God’s good earth we are the only creature that wears clothing, unless we

have made it for them, I have a sister-in-law who makes jackets for dogs. We have the

ability to control fire, yip, cooked food, we are the only species that blushes, we have

very long childhoods, most animals don’t live long after reproducing but we do.

God has plans for us! David knew this. God wants to see us all fulfil our purpose. Your

role in his kingdom is unique and required.

Where I want to take this passage is to look closely at verse 17. “How precious are your

thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them.” For in verse 17 we get this

understanding of the value of Gods thoughts to King David. While I am looking at this, I

want to point out that King David had an awesome understanding of God’s thoughts,

something well worth considering. We have an advantage in our place in history

however, as we know more about history, the development of time since King David

that he did not have to understand God’s thoughts also. We have a privileged position

of historical retrospective understanding, we have the Old and New Testaments

meaning we can look back on all that has gone before, also numerous books, research

and the internet and Dear Old Uncle Google to help us. But if you are doing research on

a topic, consider everything carefully, be sure that the reported facts are the facts.

Compared to our minds, the mind of God must be an amazing thing, in verse seventeen

King David says: “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum