Psalm 139:13-24
For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother’s womb. (v. 13) With these four verses beginning at verse 13, how can anyone who calls him/herself a Christian be in favor of legalized abortion? How does one reinterpret these verses to justify taking a baby’s life? Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in Your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. (v. 16) How??!!
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my anxious thoughts! And see if there be any hurtful way in me… (NASB, Ps. 139:23-24a) David offers here a good meditation for confession. It’s not just us probing our own thoughts; instead, we are asking God to guide us, to lead us in doing that very thing. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
I liked vs. 18 of this Psalm. “And when I awake in the morning, you are still with me!” All I have to do is remember and recognize God is with me the first moment I awake. And the words “…still with me!” Throughout the previous night, God was with me, even as I slept. A wonderful gift, eh?!
Lovely thought, Bruce!