Your eyes saw my unformed body;
Psalm 139: 16-18
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts,God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
Today I heard another man refer to the date his father died and it prompted me to remember my Dad’s death at forty-eight and my Mom’s death in April of last year. The reality of death, especially an untimely death, has a way of reminding us that our days are numbered and God is aware of each one of them.
Do you find comfort in that thought or does it make you uneasy? Elisabeth Elliot’s husband, Jim, was a Christian missionary who was killed by the very people he was trying to reach with the Gospel in the jungles of Ecuador some seventy years ago. Elisabeth was confident that God was aware and at work in the life and death of her young husband then.
“Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?”
Elisabeth Elliot
Not every situation seems best to us, but the Psalmist recognized the weight of God’s thoughts on our behalf. So, think about the quote from Elisabeth above. Can you believe and trust in God for all the days of your life?
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