Homilist Psalm 139:13-18 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb.… : — I. HE CREATED MAN, WHO IS A WONDER TO MAN'S SELF (vers. 13, 14). II. HE CREATED MAN, WHO COMES BY THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION (vers. 15, 16). The oak is not less a Divine creation because it came out of the acorn, nor the acorn a less Divine production because it is composed of various substances of the earth: and man is not less the creation of God because he came by a process of evolution. III. HE CREATED MAN, WHO APPEARS BY A DIVINE PLAN (ver. 16). Everything in the universe, from the smallest to the largest, is constructed on a fixed and unalterable type. In truth, the whole creation existed in His mind in archetype millions of years before it took its present form. "In Thy book," metaphorically, God is represented as having written a "book"; it is the book of an architect, full of plans. There are the plans of worlds and systems that have all been and are no more. The plans of all that now exist, and the plans of all that are yet to appear. 1. Because God works by method, we should study all His works as revelations of Himself. 2. Conformity to His methods should be the supreme aim of all our activities. Whatever we do out of keeping with His plans will come to ruin, and involve us in distress. IV. HE CREATED MAN, WHO IS CAPABLE OF APPRECIATING HIS THOUGHTS (vers. 17,18). God's thoughts are indeed absolutely "precious." They are original, all comprehensive without succession, infinitely beneficent, immutable, and essentially holy. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.WEB: For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. |
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