NOTES for Psa 139:7-10
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? |
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. |
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; |
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. |
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Yes, of course, God is omnipresent. But this is spoken of not only in biblical revelation; pantheistic religions are very ancient. But the God to whom the psalmist turns has astonishing differences from the god of pantheistic religions: He is Spirit, but He has a face turned toward me and a hand with which He leads and holds me. God has personal relationships with me, relationships that are not broken on His side even when I avoid them. And one more thing: to descend into the underworld means to die, to go away from God forever, into nonbeing. But God comes even there, in order to bring even nonbeing into being.
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