All The Days
Ordained For Me
You
have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you
perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you
are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it
completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where
can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to
the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I
rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even
there your hand will guide me, your right hand will
hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become
night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will
shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For
you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise
you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I
know that full well. 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. Your eyes
saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before
one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:1-16
Every life – every child – is a wonderfully made example of God’s
handiwork. Every human is an image-bearing likeness of God, and a descendant of
our first God-breathed parent, Adam.
Death robs us of a certain completion we desire in a life, but
it also reminds us of the value of each life God creates. Cherish the gift of
life and savior the joy of God’s handiwork.
All life is created by God and bears His
autograph.
Our Daily Bread –