God is omnipotent—all-powerful. The psalmist might have used God’s vast creation as an example of God’s great power, but instead he used the miracle of birth (Psalm 139:13-18). Conception, development, and birth are perpetual wonders that an under-
standing of genetics, anatomy, and obstetrics cannot erase. It is tragic that the human fetus is too often considered a nuisance to be removed, like a ruptured appendix, instead of a miracle to be admired and welcomed.

God is personally concerned and has ordained the days of our lives with the conception, development, and birth of each child. This is not the impersonal blueprint of a distant engineer, but the loving plan of a gracious Heavenly Father. First, God makes us as
He wants us to be; then He plans for us a life here on earth that will best fulfill all that He put into us. The New Testament parallel is Ephesians 2:10: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them” (NASB)
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Verse for today: “Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Thy Book they were all written. The days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them” (Psalm 139:16, NASB).

Also read: Jeremiah 1:5; 29:11; 32:17, 27; Isaiah 49:5; Galatians 1:15-16.

Action assignment: Thank God for the gift of life and that He knew and loved you before you were born. Pray that the world will stop taking life before birth so lightly and that the murder of unborn babies will cease.