Abortion is allowed in all States and Territories of Australia under certain circumstances and when it is done by a registered doctor. In NSW, a young woman under the age of 16 years may give valid consent to an abortion without her parent or guardian's knowledge. They say that Parental rights only arise when the baby is born. This is simply saying that an unborn child is not considered a human being until he/she is born.
Human life is important to God. It is the pinnacle of God’s design, the zenith of God’s creation, God’s handiwork (Job 14:15) and God’s masterpiece (Eph.2:10). Contrary to prevailing worldview, in Psalm 139:1-6, the Psalmist painted a picture of God who is actively engaged in human lives. A God who is intimately, intricately, and delicately involved in human life. He framed a portrait of God who is present everywhere, a God who is where you are. A God who is actively present in the lives of each individual, young and old alike. He knows all things about you, and is all powerful in making all things work for your good! We see a God who is omnipresent, Omniscient, and omnipotent.
Divine omniscience is too high for humans to understand (vv. 1–4, 6).
David begins his prayer by praising God for his perfect knowledge of him. Nothing about us is hidden from God. He knows all about our ways (v. 3). Verses 2-4 are samples of how well God knew David. The Lord knew every move he made; the two opposites of sitting and rising represent all his actions. (v. 2). God knew not only David’s actions; He also knew his motivations/thoughts (v2). The daily activities of the psalmist were also thoroughly familiar to the Lord. The opposites of going out in the morning and lying down at night represent the whole day’s activities He knows our thoughts before they ever come into our heads (v. 2).
Psalm 44:20-21 says, “If we have forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods. (v22) God would surely have known it, for he knows the secret of every heart.”
And this God, is the same God who knows you into the tiniest detail of your being. I FIND IT COMFORTING!
V1 - Pastor, do you mean, God sees me when I stay too long in the shower? Or when I stay too long in the toilet because I was checking my FB notifications and I lost track of time? Do you mean God sees me when I cannot figure out what’s wrong with my balance sheet? You mean, God sees me when I cannot figure out my assignment or my school project. God sees me when I am struggling in my algebra subject or my chemistry subject. He saw me too when I stole my friend’s idea for a project, or when I copied someone else’s work and did not give credit to the author. He sees me too if I was fooling myself around so late in the night but told my parents and guardians that I was in my best friend’s house. So God saw me too when I bought a lotto ticket this morning. So, He knew when I pulled out my trust from Him and doubted Him to provide for me and my family into the hand of gambling and lotto. Oh Yes! Je 23:23–24 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD, “And not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the LORD; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
I have drawn your attention to familiar places in our day to day life not to make you feel guilty or make you feel uncomfortable but to draw your attention to the greatness of our God! Psalm 139:5–6, David’s initial response to this staggering knowledge was that one of wonder and awe! This kind of knowledge was out of David’s control—it was too wonderful for him. In other words, divine omniscience is too high for humans to comprehend.
Don’t be silly to feel ashamed or hide now from God! You will miss the whole beauty of what He intends for you to see. God is everywhere because He is omnipresent! IF you take that away from His very nature, then He will not be God. The Psalmist would not recommend that you do. (v7) Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? (v8) If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my beds on the depths, you are there. (v9) If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, you are there too. The Psalmist recognize the fact that God scrutinized him to the tiniest detail of his being. “I know exactly who you are; I know everything about you.
I am reminded of Zacchaeus in the Bible. You can read his story in Luke 19:1-10. Zacchaeus is not your kind of guy to like. He was a social reject. He has a bad reputation because of what he does for a living as a chief tax collector. He probably had one of the best house in town, he was wealthy, but people think that his monies were ill-gotten wealth. A tax collector that time was known as a puppet for the Romans, a cheater of society, a thief, a fraudster. Zacchaeus was a scrap of society! No one would like to be around him. And yet he wanted to see Jesus. But he was a short man he could not, because of the crowd.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a ‘sinner.’
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”
If someone says to you I know you! I study your every move, your every way. In fact, I heard so much about you, you begin to wonder, okey, I hope you only hear the good stuff. When someone start to say something about you in a negative, judgmental way, our natural reaction is defense, to reason out, “hang on, you don’t know me, you don’t know where I’ve come from, you don’t know where I’ve been and you don’t know what I’ve gone through and you don’t know what I am going through? Who are you to calculate or miscalculate me like that.” His sounds inviting, welcoming, comforting. It is calming, sweet, reassuring, call from your father which is what you wish to a father or a mother or an aunt or uncle when you were trying to hide because you know you have done something that you don’t want anyone to find out. You slowly come out from hiding and there your father with his arms reaching out.
It’s different when it is God who is making the same assertion - “I know exactly who you are, I know everything about you. You are my handiwork (Job 14:15) because I am your Creator!” His does not sound scary or worrying.
God is not an advocate of scrap/reject; But of rework/reshape/redone. God does not disqualify what He created! God does not throw out / rejects what had been spoiled of what He created. You only throw out the rejects when you cannot use them anymore. Human life is uniquely complex, and yet, simple if you put on the perspective of God about you and everyone else.
V13) For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. (v15) My frame was not hidden from you when I was in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. (16) Your eyes saw my unformed body. RESPONSE: v14) I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful. I know that full well. V16) all the days ordained for me are written in your book before one of them came to be.
Don’t Ask God Why - One mark of spiritual maturity is the confident acceptance that God is in control, without understanding the whys and whens of happenings. “Woe to him who strives with his Maker,/an earthen vessel with the potter!/Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ ” (Isa. 45:9).
Have absolute security in Him, and, don’t be ashamed either or be scared but Be thankful! I am forever grateful to God.
Psalm 40:5 - Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works. Which You have done;
And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them,They are more than can be numbered.
First Get Right with God - Many years ago I read a statement by Dr. Carl Jung of Switzerland. He said that in thirty-five years of counseling people with personal problems, none of them had gotten right with themselves until first they got right with God.
It is important that we get it right with and by God. Because your response will either hold you back or propel you to your full potential of everything that God has already written your book! The scripture says what God has ordained your life and has control of your life if you let him. This means, putting on the mind of God towards us! God loves you. God has proven that, and he has sent other people in your life to love you.
Conclusion: This is the God of creation and He paid so much attention on me. I am watching you! My eyes are in you! I know everything about you! AS you see with unborn babies, the opportunity to see or not to see the world lies with the mother. But to us who are alive, the opportunity to see or not to see the world and be the best with and for God, lies in our view of our Creator and Sustainer of our lives! Are you prepared to let go of limiting thoughts to embrace who God made you? And, to stand tall knowing He is OMNISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT, AND OMNIPOTENT!
Will you take a more serious approach and grip of your life now that you understand how important human life is to God; that you are the pinnacle of God’s design, the zenith of God’s creation, God’s handiwork (Job 14:15) and God’s masterpiece (Eph.2:10)? Will you take a more responsible approach to your daily living knowing that God sees everything you do? Will you purposely walk and live in truth seeing that God knows you through and through?
