In the first six verses David is asking a question. He is asking, "How well does God know me?" The answer is: "Very well!"                                                       
We all have something to hide. We hide from our spouses, our parents, our friends, our fellow church members. Although we may have one or two close friends with whom we discuss some of our deepest, darkest secrets, none of us reveals everything. If everything were known about anyone of us we would instantly lose any good name we may have. So we cover up. We try to present our best side to the world. We want people to know us for our virtues, not our vices. Try as we may like, we can't hide our true nature from God. God knows us better than we ourselves do. You see, when it comes to you and to me, God knows all things and sees all things.

In the next 6 verses David is again asking a question. This time he is asking, "How near is God to me?" The answer: "Very near!"                                           
God not only knows everything there is to know about me, but He also goes everywhere I go. There is no place I can go where I can escape God's all-knowing and all-seeing presence. We can call for the mountains to fall on us and the hills to cover us, but the eye of God can see through mountains and hills.  There is no escape from God.   I read of a twelve year old boy who was moving from Minnesota to Montana. The night before they left he got down by his bed and said, "Goodbye, God. We're going to Montana." He was sure he would not find God there, but when he arrived, there God was.

This psalm is pro-God. God is the focus. God is the star. It is God Who knows all things. It is God Who is everywhere present. It is God that we come face-to-face with in this psalm.

In our Scripture reading there are two wonderfully descriptive words that are used to picture God's act of making or creating what is in the womb. The first word is found in verse 13. David says that God "knit me together in my mother's womb." The second word is found in verse 15. There David says "I was woven together in the depths of the earth."

Did you catch the two words? I am thinking of the words "knit" and "woven."

Topic: Man
Subtopic: Created in God's Image
Index: 2239
Date: 4/1999.101
Title: Knitting With Dog Hair

Summer is a sleepy time for the publishing world, but one book Knitting with Dog Hair has become a surprise cult hit. Inside is a complete guide to each stage in creating clothing from "a dog you know and love rather than a sheep you'll never meet" as the book puts it - from picking up the hairball under the sofa to spinning the yarn. At the back of the book are patterns for scarves, mittens and jumpers, with the finished results proudly modeled by the dog owners. There's even an exhaustive guide to which dogs provide the best yarn. Readers learn that the Rottweiler, "calm and intelligent by nature", has a very short, fine undercoat that can be spun when mixed with longer fibers.

What a painstaking process: collect the hair, spin the yarn, and then knit the finished product. The Bible tells us that God "knit me together in my mother's womb" and that "I was woven together in the depths of the earth" (Psalm 139:13,15). God took as much care knitting me in my mother's womb as those who knit with dog hair take in knitting a scarf or a mitten. He was present there in the womb, knitting me together – one vein, one bone, one organ, one system at a time.

David pictures the work of God within the womb as a knitting process. This tells me that God makes us according to a plan – His plan. He makes us so all the parts fit together just right and support one another. God also embroiders us within the womb. This says something about how intricate and complex we are. We have been knitted and woven together by God according to His plan. He was present there in the womb, putting us together.

Conclusion
Psalm 139 is not pro-choice. While it is pro-life it is especially pro-God. God, it says, is there in the womb. He is there making me and forming me. He knows the date of my conception and He knows the date of my death. He knows everything about me. As we think about this, we can only say what the psalmist says:

(Ps 139:17-18) How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! (18) Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

*taken from http://www.trinitycrc.org/sermons/ps139v13-18c.html Sermon on Psalm 139 by By: Rev. Adrian Dieleman