before I was born

Psalm 139

"Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out, your formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God - you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration - what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body, you know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. 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." (v. 13-16)

When my children were preschoolers, I asked each of them where they were before they were born. Both of them talked about being with God. They had specifics and details of what it was like that I have never questioned that what they said was true. I read Psalm 139 and it is so intimate and so comforting to know that God knows every detail about me, and has known me since before I was born.

Just thinking about the idea that he knows exactly where I am at every moment, that there is no place where I am hidden from him, and that he even sees me in the dark and all that implies, is mind-boggling. I read this psalm and feel pursued, intimately known, and loved by God.

Posted by Candice Letkeman