Ps. 139:1-6, 13-18 see
Miller- Interpreting the Psalms- see a good Barth quote at149.- Mays
in the Interpretation series, Limburg in WBC, McCann in NIB among
others in this wonderful period of psalm study.

This reminds me of the
Runaway Bunny, or the story of the nut-brown hare and his father, we
can run but not hide from God.

God is so close, knows
us so well. Here omniscience is more the depth of God’s
knowledge, its sheer totality and fullness of knowing what we don’t,
can’t even know about ourselves.

Are we surrounded by
God’s presence or hemmed in, trapped? I see it in a sense of
being bounded by God, so that the space created is within God’s
frame. As Joe Louis said, you can run but you can’t hide.

When has you been
touched by the hand of god?

v. 13-18-If this is
metaphysical language; they are not ontic categories, impersonal
abstractions. ‘This is a relational metaphysic, a very personal
mode of knowing and being known.

It sees God’s
hand present at the knitting together in the womb. Perhaps the
calling is made there as well at times. Inward being has a sense of
the seat of conscience, of wisdom.

The Purpose-driven Life
and Church are popular works. Here, it seems that we are part of
God’s grand design.