THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Friday, December 15, 2023

Lord, how sobering. How humbling to realize before I was conceived, you knew me. I’m not just various matter and material scrambled together by some cosmic accident. I am a product of your sovereign will, a divine creation, made in your image. Scripture tells me you planned my birth at a particular time and place (Acts 17:26). Level with me Lord. When you looked at me, did you smile and shake your head, and declare, “I’ll never do that again.”

Psalm 139 details how you observe everything we do every minute of our lives. You know our every thought. You watch us wherever we go, and whatever we do. What is remarkable to me is you know what I’m gonna say before I say it. When I’m rebellious, your Spirit follows me wherever I run. It’s impossible to hide from you.

Even more sobering is that according to Scripture, “Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed” (Psalm 139:16 NLT). That is past tense. Does this mean you saw me from the moment of conception in my mother’s womb to the time I take my final breath? That you knew the choices I would make in the past, and with my free will, you know how I will decide when I face future choices?

And Lord, because you know everything about every one of us, you make ways to reveal yourself so we can either choose to follow you or continue to do our own thing. Lord, may we always choose you.

Amen, Jesus.