It's a whole lot easier to glorify God on days that are full of

joy in your victories when everything seems to be falling nicely into place. But is

God still praiseworthy in the midst of the messy traumatic events of our lives?

Of course he is, and today we'll explore why on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Psalm 139. We're looking today at verses 13-18.

You knitted me, you wove me. There's nothing random about this. And all of this you've done in secret.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret in the depths of the earth.

What does he mean by that? Well I think it's just a metaphor in the place of unknowing when I was

safe within my mother's womb. Your eyes saw my unformed substance. Spurgeon says of this, he says,

the psalmist had scarcely peered within the veil which hides the nerves, the sinews, the blood vessels

from common inspection. Incidentally, Spurgeon couldn't even approximate to the knowledge that we

have now in the 21st century in terms of human anatomy. But he says the science of anatomy was

quite unknown to him. And yet he had seen enough to arouse his admiration of the work and his

reverence for the worker. You know, it's pretty impossible I think for a person to be present for

the arrival of a child when it comes in the immediacy of that moment and go, are you kidding me?

Look at this. That's what he's saying. You did this. You formed, you knitted, you contrived, you made me.

And your eyes saw my unformed substance. In other words, God was doing ultrasound long before we

found out for sounds. Every scientific discovery for good is a discovery of that which God in his

infinite wisdom has made possible by his creative design. You see what he's saying here? Even when my mom

didn't know that I was there, you knew I was there. When I was embryonic,

when that little thing had happened down there and she didn't even know, she didn't know, but you knew

because you were responsible for that. That's what he's saying. Well, he's saying this is not

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