Psalm 139
1 O Lord, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3 You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
4 You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, Lord.
5 You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
and know everything about me.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3 You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
4 You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, Lord.
5 You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
7 I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,[a] you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,[a] you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God.
They cannot be numbered!
18 I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
They cannot be numbered!
18 I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
My pastor at church this morning preached on this. His first question was this: Ever feel like you impact nobody? We should value our own worth not on what we do for a living, money we make, what others think of us or even what we look like. Our value should only be based on what God thinks of us, nobody else.
God knows us
God pursues us - Even if we don't Him.
God made us! Psalm 139 shows it! There are other verses that prove this!
God has plans for us!
With that in mind:
I would trade my children in for nothing. They are a blessing and gift from God. They were fearfully and wonderfully made by God the way God wanted them to be. God knew their story and who their parents would be before we did. God knit them in my womb knowing all that would come. Does God make mistakes? No!
Things are rough sometimes and I worry sometimes about how things will turn out for them and for us. Yet God has a plan for all of us. I don't see us having a quiver full but my children have a story and as many as my daughter has touched in 8 short years, I can imagine how many my son will touch. I wouldn't trade that, ever.
My children won't be raised to conform to this world but to teach this world. Special needs children aren't a burden, they are a blessing. I think God allowed "disabilities" so they can teach the world about God's truth, faith and HOPE.
Without hope, we have nothing. Absolutely nothing.....
My storm: We are down to one car this week.
My rainbow: I asked God to see a rainbow today and I did on the way home today. It was faint but it was definitely there. I can barely see it in the pic from my phone.
Blessings!
~ Special Momma ~
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