The Belt of Truth: Psalm 139:13-24

The last half of Psalm 139 turns to contemplating God’s marvel of creating us in the womb. How he fashioned us and sees us intimately even there in the depths of our mother’s womb. Here we even have an image of our graves being a womb of sorts as we wait to come out on the day of resurrection. 

God’s knowledge plans out our lives and knows them all even as we are not aware. Such knowledge is very deep to contemplate. The Psalmist even falls asleep trying to meditate on the vast sum of them. 

In the end, the Psalmist then shifts from this wonderful contemplation to a cry against the enemies of God. Almost as if they are an intrusion into God’s beauty, opposing it and destroying it. So the psalmist opposes them, seeing that they are an enemy of God and out of zeal implores God to search him and know him. After all, the enemy also exists within us and we wish to have that purged to follow God on the ancient paths.