Awesome and Amazing

We are journeying through Psalm 139. To read the previous reflection, click here.

O LORD, you examine me and know me.

You know when I sit down and when I get up;

even from far away you understand my motives.

You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest;

you are aware of everything I do.

Certainly my tongue does not frame a word

without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.

You squeeze me in from behind and in front;

you place your hand on me.

Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension;

it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

Where can I go to escape your Spirit?

Where can I flee to escape your presence?

If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there.

If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn,

and settle down on the other side of the sea,

even there your hand would guide me,

your right hand would grab hold of me.

If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me,

and the light will turn to night all around me,”

even the darkness is not too dark for you to see,

and the night is as bright as day;

darkness and light are the same to you.

Certainly you made my mind and heart;

you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing.

You knew me thoroughly;

my bones were not hidden from you,

when I was made in secret

and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

 

Psalm 139:14-15, NET

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never created bones, connected them with ligaments and muscles (that I also created for the purpose), and gave them skin (oh I would have had to make that, too), organs, hair, eyes, a personality, breath, a soul…

Have we forgotten to be awed and amazed by God?

And I wonder, what is more awesome and amazing, the fact He created our bodies with great care and completeness, or the fact that he knows every single detail about us and treats that knowledge with sacred secrecy because it is such utterly holy work to Him? 

Have we ever been properly awed and amazed by God?

I will praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made… Psalm 139:14, NIV

Will I?

I’m afraid all I have are questions this week, folks. I am not convinced we humans comprehend what God did for us when our bones were not hidden from Him, when we were made in secret and sewn together in the depths of the earth. 

As we line the road to Easter Sunday, laying down our garments to make way for a King we think we understand, I am wondering if He’s even more than I imagine Him to be.

I am making room for the greatness of the God who made my bones and allowed his to be nailed to a Cross so I would know without doubt that I am known and loved. 

Lord, I will give thanks to you because your deeds are awesome and amazing. Amen.

@audreycfrank

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