Псалми 139:14

The Light makes the truth of everything clear, and, where there is not that which divinely meets it, the effort is to flee from His presence... But faith has a divine resource where it can rest... in this thought, praise can arise even in the all-searching light of the divine presence. "I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made." The soul surveys itself as of the works of Jehovah; and they are marvellous (v. 14), whether it be in creative power, as here, or in redemption or resurrection.

He has made us for Himself. We are His, we belong to Him. He has covered me in my mother's womb, He has exercised over me a beneficent Creator's care. Therefore I will praise Thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Thy works... Astronomers set their telescopes to the heavens to see the marvellous works of God, while the most marvellous works are to be witnessed in the person of the astronomer himself.

Most marvellous! Look at man; is he not most skilfully and wonderfully contrived? See in the same person the loftiest flights of thought, and the most debasing passions! Physically and morally, we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

If we regard the second Man the Lord from heaven, Immanuel, God with us... Him who fills the highest heavens, and yet was down here a babe in a manger, who could command the waves, and still the storm, but was buffeted by His creatures — how fearfully and wonderfully made! But we are looking at the Psalm in another aspect, and who so fearfully and wonderfully made, as one quickened by the Spirit, the believer in God's testimony to His Son? The believer holds to two heads. As naturally constituted, we are under "the law of sin and death"... But it is here divine philanthropy begins. "God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ" (Eph. 2:4-5).

"My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought" — "embroidered" — "in the lowest parts of the earth." And, indeed, the curious interweaving of nerves, veins, arteries, together can be compared to nothing more justly than to a marvellous embroidery. This, of course, in all men: and can God be wanting in consideration and tenderness for a being upon whom He has bestowed such wonderful care?

We do not become valuable by what we do (even if it is to marry), but are valuable because God has created us and we are precious in His eyes (see Ps. 139:12–16).

NOW it is that the soul does not shrink from the light; but, as in Psalm 139, says, "Search me, O God." But oh, what confidence that is, what amazing confidence! ... The moment he knows that God has wrought salvation and quickened him in the grace of Christ, he can say that.