"Perfectly Woven"

My best friend is expecting her first child, a baby boy, in the spring. She shared some digital photos of the baby from the ultrasound. It was beautiful to see all the intricacies of this little unborn child. His hands, feet, fingers, toes, face and cute little nose were all visible in the photo. God is designing this precious creation, and I saw a view inside His masterpiece.

God has created each one of us in a particular and unique way. It is amazing to think about how much time we put into figuring out what is wrong with us and what we want to change, when God put so much time into creating each line, shape, and form with an exact purpose. Psalm 139 depicts a vivid illustration of us being portrayed as God’s design.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 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, your eyes saw my unformed body. 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, O 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 (Psalm 139: 13-18).”

Like a needle sewing thread, God has specifically designed us as His beautiful work of art. He knows every hair on our head and thought on our minds. When I saw this picture of the unborn child, it reminded me that God is with us from the day of conception and is already hard at work. No matter how many flaws or disappointments we tend to always find in ourselves, they weren’t seen as that to God. We are beautiful to Him, and we should feel complete and worthy to come from His creation.

“Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand (Isaiah 64:8).”