My dear young pastors, Sam and Taylor, were just blessed with a miracle baby boy. They fostered a newborn baby and eventually were able to adopt him. God has blessed their ministry and the church they founded and now God has blessed them with another son. He was born on the seventh of March and weighed seven pounds seven ounces. It really appears that God has put His signature on that young man’s life. I’m especially happy for them because my wife and I were unable to have children.
This happy news made me take another look at what God’s word says about the process of child birth. Jeremiah wrote that God told him, “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I separated you out as my prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 NLT) The Psalmist describes God’s handiwork. “You made all of 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.” (Psalms 139:13-16 NLT)
The womb is not always a safe place for God’s miracles to happen anymore. In the U.S. alone, more than seven million abortions have been done since 1973. Did God know them before they were being formed? How many of those 7,000,000 innocent lives were separated out by God for great works before being killed before even taking their first breath? Only God knows those answers, but what I do know and continue to experience myself is when a society devalues human life at the very beginning, they will devalue life nearing the end as well.
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