Anyway, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles to Psalm 139, Psalm 139. It's our privilege this morning to Be able to look again at this particular Psalm, we're gonna end up spending a total of 4 weeks in the Psalm, and this is the second of those 4 weeks. And if you want to give a title to the section of the Psalm that we're gonna be looking at today, it would be a love that won't let us go. A love that won't let us go and we'll be looking at verses 7 through 18.
George Matheson, is a name that might be familiar to some of you. He was born in 1842. poor eyesight afflicted him from birth, but he was a, a bright young man, a bright student, and he graduated with honors from college at the age of 19. After college, he pressed on with his, theological, studies to prepare for the ministry.
Around the age of 20 he became engaged to a woman. But it was while they were preparing for a married life together that George Matheson received the devastating news that he would eventually be going entirely blind. When he informed his fiance of this bad news, she responded by telling him that she did not want to spend her life, the rest of her life with a blind man. She broke off the engagement and left him alone to process his grief.
It was while Matheson was in seminary doing his theological studies that he went totally blind. But with the help of his sisters, he was able to complete his studies. he became a pastor of a church and was eventually preaching weekly before a congregation of 1500 people. Over the years of his ministry, his sisters would help him to write his sermons and get them memorized for him to deliver from memory on Sundays....
