November 10 – Far Far Back Before Everything

“Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.”  - Psalm 139:16 (NASB)

So far, over the last two days we’ve considered the attributes of God that describe his knowledge of everything and his presence everywhere. There is nothing God doesn’t know. There is nowhere He needs to go to for He’s already there He’s in all places. Those are pretty awesome characteristics. God also is all powerful. We acknowledge that our omnipotent God has nothing He cannot do. Although God doesn’t and cannot sin, it is because only those born in sin are slaves to sin. God is not a slave to sin because He is holy He cannot become a sinner. And, God’s omnipotence is how He can create a human and He does this within our mother’s womb. God is the one who makes us how we are. He predestines each of our days, our verse says, he does so when yet they was none of them. In Ephesians 1:3-4, we learn that each who believe in God were created by and were chosen by Christ before the foundation of the earth for salvation. We humans are made not by accident but for God’s purpose and out of his love and omnipotent might. 

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February 28 – Before the Eye Twinkled

“My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”  -Psalm 139:15-16  (ESV)

God knows us.  Not just who we are.  We were known to be a person before any of our days existed. We did not spring into existence and then God happens to come to know us.  No, we were not a surprise to him for we have actually been put together by Him.  We used to say to others to mark their pre-conception that they were “just a twinkle in the eyes of their father/mother.”  Way before that ‘twinkle’, God knew about us and He even knew us before there were any days of our formation in our mother’s womb. It was there that God put us together weaving into us who we would be.  When we had no form to be seen by the ultrasound machine, God knew what we looked like.  The secret of our development was not a secret from God.  These are some of the promises from these verses today.  But there are many more in this passage that details how intimately God knows us and how very involved He was in our creation. The verses are from a Psalm of David.  Reading the whole Psalm 139 is an uplifting experience.  

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August 23 – It's Mind Blowing

“Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. 
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!”  Psalm 139:16-17 (NASB)

We often say on this blog that we have a great God.  Some of the verses from the Bible that we read remind us that God's people have said the same thing many times.  One person who expressed this truth was David, who wrote many of the songs in the book of Psalms.  Our verses today are from Psalm 139 and David declares the truth that God new what he would be doing before he was born.  He knew every day of David's life and every event of every day.   This is true regarding everyone of us too.  It is a promise from God that He knows.  We are assured that God is watching each of us every day. He knows all our needs and He has known them since before we were born.  How can this be?   It is because He knows everything about everyone and because He doesn't live in the confines of time, He lives in eternity.  These thoughts, we might say, blew David's mind as he reflected, as we can too, on how precious and vast God's thoughts about us are. 

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