Psalm 139:13-16
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
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My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
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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.
Last week, Vicki and I welcomed our first grandchild, Harriet Jane Wooster. As I held her, she lifted her right arm and held her ear. It looked familiar. We looked at her ultrasound photos and there she was in the same pose! She is fearfully and wonderfully made, formed and knitted together in the womb and now we get to enjoy watching her grow. This is a psalm about the sovereignty and craftsmanship of almighty God and it tells us how much he loves us.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He made the stars. He made the seas and the mountains. He is that powerful. Then he paid intricate attention to the creation of each person who ever lived. He loves each person because he created them to bear his image. We are wonderfully made but woefully inadequate for pleasing God. Praise the Lord that he came to earth to die, the only perfect human became a broken shell so we who deserve death could be written in his book. We spend time on what we value. God values us so much he spent time designing us and spent his Son in saving us. His eyes saw our unformed substance…
And he loved us anyway.