Last week I celebrated my birthday. The entire day was simple yet so perfectly delightful. Just the way I like it. My family treated me to dinner and lavished me with kind words and fun renditions of the birthday song. There were handwritten cards in the mailbox and dozens of Facebook messages. There were a few phone calls and a delicious apple cinnamon muffin topped with a brightly lit candle at morning bible study.
Birthdays always have a way of bringing Psalm 139 into focus for me. I am immensely humbled when I think about the way the Universe Maker had a plan to redeem my life even though He knew just how grossly I would divert from His perfect ways…
… the way the Life Breather sustains my daily & eternal breath even though death is all that I’ve ever earned
… the way the Grace Giver rescued me from the pits of despair and put a new song in my heart
… the way the Highest One gives me the chance to be one of his storytellers through words, pictures, and life as I declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples
So, today I leave you with a few verses from Psalm 139 and a few images from His littlest storytellers. Without even uttering a word, these little ones are dramatically declaring the glory of the Saviour King, Jesus Christ!
May God grant you eyes to see and a heart that believes that you were made FOR HIM!
PSALM 139:13-18, 23-24
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or you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 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.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
