Your eyes saw my unformed body all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I know that full well. “For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:16 says, “Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth all the stages of my life were spread out before you, the days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.” King David speaks of God’s incredible love for him ever since he was conceived. So, before God ever formed you in the womb, HE LOVED YOU. ![]() This foreknowledge means God loved us before we ever came into existence. Paul also spoke of God’s foreknowledge: “God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did…” Romans 4:17. Jesus spoke of God’s foreknowledge: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only” Matthew 42:36. Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise his greatness no one can fathom” Psalm 145:1. Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. “I will exalt you, my God the King I will praise your name for ever and ever. Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth” ( Jeremiah 1:4-9). Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD. “Ah, Sovereign LORD,” I said, “I do not know how to speak I am only a child.” But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. “ The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 says, before we existed, he knew us: In the same way I loved my kids, God loves us. The point is I began to love my kids way before they were born! I didn’t wait until the day of their birth to begin to bond with them. Both Chris and I did a lot of dreaming before our kids ever came into existence-we even dreamed what it would be like to take them for a walk in the stroller, teaching them to ride a bike or go fishing. We guessed they would have Chris’s smile and my eyes. ![]() When my husband and I began dreaming of our own family, we imagined what it would be like. Each of us whether we were planned, wanted, unplanned, or unwanted by our parents were formed in this fashion. Every time I read the words, “I knit you together,” it stirs up images of God whispering me into existence in my mother’s womb as bone, flesh, sinew, spirit, and soul perform a delicate dance in hushed awe.
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