Made in Secret

Psalm 139:13-24

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.   I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.   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.”

What an appropriate Psalms to close out 2019, the final days of December and it seems that a few of the many parents want their child to decide what sex they are.  My oldest grandson not always known for his tack, was ask by a young lady he was dating this question; if we had a little boy and he thought he was a little girl what would you do?  He said that’s easy, I would pull down his pants and show him the part he came with. That was close to the last date, and he is back seeking his love, a big trout in a river some place.

As I read, these thoughts come into my mind, like even if I was not wanted, I was part of God’s plan from before the foundation of the earth, and I’m reminded that God’s works are wonderful!  Before I was, you saw me and desired a relationship with me, and you took pleasure in me, but sin kept us from having that relationship and you also knew that before the foundation of the earth.  You sent your Son, your only Son who was  the lamb without blemish, to take my sins and the sins of everyone.  In the gospel of John 1:9-13, we see that Jesus who told us He was the light of the world, that light is our only hope of a relationship with a Holy God.   ^“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.   He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.  He came to his own, and his own people^[ did not receive him.   But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

I’m so glad I do not understand God, or His ways, if I did I would not need grace or faith, and when anyone tells you they do, my counsel is run from them, they are more messed up than you are and in greater need than you.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice