Sunday Reading: Psalm 139:14-15
Key Verse: Psalm 139:14
14 I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are marvellous and my soul knows it very well.
Devotion:
It is a truly wonderful thing that we can know that God has created each one of us and that He has watched over that creation from its very beginning. It is equally amazing that God continues to watch over each one of us throughout each and every day of our lives. His love for us continues to astound us and His compassion exceeds all our expectations. We can say that we came from our parents because it is our parents bodies that made it possible for us to be born through the amazing biological events that lead up to birth; but without God none of that would be possible. Without God holding the atoms together they would fly apart and we would be reduced to nothing. It is not through a ‘big bang’ that we were created because that goes against every natural and physical law that we know. Physicists are now saying that the ‘nothing’ in the beginning cannot have actually been ‘nothing’ but a different form of nothing that was not actually nothing. Man is beginning to realise that there must have been God in the beginning; a God who has created us and not just allowed a random big bang to make something!
God knows the very atoms that make us up. He knows the hairs on our heads (some of us make it easier for Him to count each year). He knows everything about us. There is not a single place anywhere in our universe (or outside it) where God will be separated from us!
If you have time to read this whole chapter then I encourage you to read it and read it slowly; think about each statement and why it has been written down. Think about the enormity of each verse as it explains that we are not alone. No there are not aliens out there; God is with us and He continues to watch over us. Whether He has made life on other planets or not is something we look forward to finding out – what we need to focus on is that God is our Creator and that He is our God. It really is that simple!
Points to Ponder:
Where do you come from?
How great is God to care simple me?
