Today I was thinking about how incredibly astonishing God’s creation is. I was marveling at the trees standing out stark against a fading sunset. The top of the sky was still beautifully blue set off by a soft purple eventually followed by pinks, yellows, reds and oranges. My heart simply ached with the magnificent display by my abba Father. My Daddy painted that sunset in the sky. He wooed and whispered the trees into being. He forethought and created each and every process necessary to sustain their life, from the sun’s light to the chloroplast harnessing it. My God is an awesome God. As I marveled I felt Him speak clearly into my soul: Child you are my most beloved creation.
I heard His words with perfect understanding. I willingly, openly marvel at everything He has made and with the same heart and mind rip myself to shreds.
Do I believe my LORD? The question is not do I believe in God but do I believe God. He tells me:
-He made me (and you!) with intention
Psalm 139:13 - 18 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
As one of my favorite Bible teachers, Beth Moore, would say “Oh, I know somebody wants to say Amen!”
I’m simply giddy with the reading of it. I often ask my Father to sing over my children as they fall to sleep. I want them to learn His voice. It is dear to me to think that He was singing to them long before I had even seen their precious faces.
-He knew me, loved me and chose me long before He began to knit my earthly body together
Ephesians 1:4-5 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will
He has never stopped knitting me together. He, to this very second, is at work carefully and often painfully suturing wounds. He pointed something out to me recently in my time in Jeremiah. Very near the beginning of the book, presumably not long after the young Jeremiah has been called to be a prophet to rebellious Judah He tells the young man:
Jeremiah 1:10 See,today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, todestroy and overthrow, to build and to plant
Some things must be destroyed before others can be planted. He has done miraculous work in me. I am a living breathing miracle. Now,He calls me to uproot and to tear down to clear the way for what He will plant.
He asks me: will you as My beloved choose to believe that you are precious and holy to Me? Will you choose to step into your purposely planned and chosen role (Eph 2:10) with My mighty power and strength (Acts 1:8, Eph 6:10) or will you continue to believe Satan’s lie (Jn 8:44) that you aren’t good enough?
God tells me I am precious and chosen (Col 3:12) and that I am a warrior (Eph 6, 1 Tim 6:12). I will not allow Satan to convince me otherwise. I invite you to believe Him with me!
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