Several months ago, my friend Molly asked me to collaborate with her on a song based on Psalm 139. Since she’d already begun writing the tune, she sent me a template of sorts for the lyrics. Her melody immediately captured me, and I was able to get on board quickly, hearing the lyrical rhythms of the lines. Not every song I write comes easily, but this time as I studied the psalm, I felt that the lines almost wrote themselves.
Psalm 139 talks about God’s deep, personal, individual knowledge of each person. If we don’t know God, that thought can be frightening. However, once we have come to Him through His Son, Jesus Christ, it is a very comforting thing to be fully known by a good, merciful, all-powerful God. And despite the prevailing idea today that a child in the womb is not really a person, this psalm emphasizes the humanity of an unborn baby. That child is a person that God is knitting together, fashioning for His purposes. It is a life that has significance and value as His creation.
These truths are reason to praise the Lord for His omniscience! The fact that there is nowhere we can go to be out of His sight is not scary and intimidating, but reassuring and strengthening. Why would we want to hide from such a God? Where can we go for help, except to Him? Head on over to the lyrics tab on my site, click on the new song “Where Can I Go?”, and have a listen!