God Who Made Me
“Knowing My God” Series, Part 3
Psalm 139:13-18
PSALM 139:
DAVID’S CONFESSION OF FAITH ABOUT GOD
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Psalm 139 is about FAITH.
 It is NOT an objective list of God’s attributes.
 Rather, it is David’s personal confession on his experiential
knowledge of God.
 “Knowing My God” Series is a study on Psalm 139—the
four confessions of David’s faith about God:
 vs.1-6
Part 1: God Who Knows Me
 vs.7-12
Part 2: God Who Is with Me
 vs.13-18
Part 3: God Who Made Me
 vs.19-24
Part 4: God Who Guides Me
PSALM 139:
DAVID’S CONFESSION OF FAITH ABOUT GOD
•
Psalm 139 is about FAITH.
 It is NOT an objective list of God’s attributes.
 Rather, it is David’s personal confession on his experiential
knowledge of God.
 “Knowing My God” Series is a study on Psalm 139—the
four confessions of David’s faith about God:
 vs.1-6
Part 1: God Who Knows Me
 vs.7-12
Part 2: God Who Is with Me
 vs.13-18
Part 3: God Who Made Me [TODAY]
 vs.19-24
Part 4: God Who Guides Me
PSALM 139:
DAVID’S CONFESSION OF FAITH ABOUT GOD
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What is FAITH according to David’s confessions so far?
 Faith is to personally know God who knows everything
about me (vs. 1-6).
 Therefore, we are to passionately pursue God who
pursued us first.
 Faith is to experientially know the presence of God
wherever I go, whatever I do (vs. 7-12).
 Therefore, we are to choose to live in the presence of God
at all times.
DAVID’S SELF-DISCOVERY
IN KNOWING GOD WHO MADE HIM
1) Who made me?: “God formed and knitted me together in
my mother’s womb.”
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. (v.13)
 The reason why God knows everything about David is that
God made him—from the inward parts to the outer body
to the spirit.
 The Creator God is not only the source of life but also the
designer of the purpose of life [i.e., God not man is the
center of a human life].
 In faith, we must also realize that it is not a random cosmic
coincidence but GOD who made us in his infinite wisdom
and purpose.
11You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
Job 10:11-12
You have made us for yourself, O Lord,
and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
St. Augustine
DAVID’S SELF-DISCOVERY
IN KNOWING GOD WHO MADE HIM
2) How was I made?: “I am fearfully and wonderfully made by
God.”
14I
praise you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth. (vs.14-15)
DAVID’S SELF-DISCOVERY
IN KNOWING GOD WHO MADE HIM
2) How was I made?: “I am fearfully and wonderfully made by
God.”
 David outburst with praise to God. Why? David realizes the
wonder and sanctity of a human life—his identity is found
in his Creator God.
 God was intrinsically involved God was in making David
from Day One of his conception—this is why Scripture
condemns abortion (Ex. 21:22-25).
 Our faith must also lead us to see our infinite worth in God
because God is our CREATOR (v.13) and as our ABBA
Father (Rom. 8:15).
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
who alone does wondrous things.
Psalm 72:18
“For I know the plans I have for you,”
declares the LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 [NIV]
DAVID’S SELF-DISCOVERY
IN KNOWING GOD WHO MADE HIM
3) How valued am I in God?: “I am awestruck by God’s
perpetual attention and precious thoughts of me!”
16Your
eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you. (vs.16-18)
DAVID’S SELF-DISCOVERY
IN KNOWING GOD WHO MADE HIM
3) How valued am I in God?: “I am awestruck by God’s
perpetual attention and precious thoughts of me!”
 David is awestruck by how God made him with such
careful thoughts—that the infinite almighty God thinks of
him with perpetual attention!
 Here David sees not only his true identity (that he belongs
to God) but his true wroth (that he is treasured by God).
 In faith, we must also see ourselves from how God sees and
thinks of us—it is the true source of self-worth and
abiding presence of God.
You have multiplied, O LORD my God,
your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you! . . .
How great are your works, O LORD!
Your thoughts are very deep!
Psalm 40:5a; 90:5
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,
declares the LORD.
Isaiah 55:8
God’s Thoughts Draw Us Nearer to Him
But, alas! Our thoughts of God are a very poor help to us in
drawing us nearer to him, they flag, and tire, and soon die; but
the thoughts of God toward us are strong, like God himself is,
and these, like so many unbreakable cords firmly fastened to us,
are drawing us ever nearer to him. Thought leads to action, and
God’s thinking of us leads to the practical action of drawing us
nearer to himself. So the fact that he is continually thinking of
us encourages us to believe that we shall one day be close to
him, and be fitted to be close to him, being perfectly conformed
to the image of Christ, and drawn into the closest possible
fellowship with God. And the nearer we get to God, the more
precious will his thoughts of us become to us.
- Charles H. Spurgeon
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
FOR OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
1.
Find your true IDENTITY & WORTH in God.
 Turn away from the worldly ways of seeking self-esteem and
self-identity.
 Surrender all of your failures, hang-ups and inadequacies to
God and find humble confidence in God.
2. Thank God for HIS FEARFUL & WONDERFUL WORK in making
you.
 Meditate on how God has designed, formed, and purposed
you in making you.
 Burst out a praise to God! Rejoice in God to whom you belong!
3. Think ON GOD’S THOUGHTS OF YOU to draw near to God.
 Think with Scripture that reveals God’s thoughts of you.
 Abide in the presence of God by clinging to God’s thoughts.