This is an age where life is cheap and marriage is disposable. Despite the landscape of shootings, bombings and beheadings, God’s view of life is much different than what the world projects.
Kind David of Israel wrote these inspired and immortal words in Psalm 139:13-16: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
God made each and every one of us; not just in our mother’s womb, but as an integral and essential part of all creation. We are His crowning creation, for which all else was made. Given the glory and wonder of natural beauty, how much more valuable must we be to our God, that He considers each of us to be of greater value than all the rest of creation?
This is a deeply intimate Psalm because even before your mother knew you were growing inside of her, God already had begun to form you. In three weeks from fertilization of the human embryo the heart begins to beat and blood begins its march through our tiny veins. In the fourth week from fertilization, the nerves, brain and spinal cord are forming.
From these two factual evidences, it is clear that what is in the mother’s womb is a child. A being initiated through human passion, but finding its true origin in the mind of God in the far past. God does not make mistakes even when men “go off the reservation” and think they are autonomous from God. Even then God shows His love for us.
Paul the apostle in Romans 5:6-10 we read these eternal words: “for while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person – though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled shall we be saved by his live” (ESV).
You see all life is precious because life is a gift from God and we are created in our mother’s womb to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. Jesus showed throughout His life here on earth that He loved children, which inspired the song “Jesus Loves the Little Children.”
But if we do not consider life precious, we are not on the same page as God. It would not be incorrect to state that if one is bent toward ending the precious life of a child in the womb, that person is usurping a place of importance above God, stealing the decision of life and death from the One who created life itself.
God does want the very best for all of His precious creation; inside and outside the womb. He would like it very much if none would have to experience eternity apart from Him in the very deep darkness and abyss. God is very patient toward us, “not wishing that any should perish, but hat all should reach repentance” (2 Peter 3:9b, ESV).
“Repentance” is a turning away from sin (from life lived as you see fit instead of life lived as God would have for you) and turning to follow God. The humbling reality, is that by confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, will save you.
God so loved you that He sent Jesus so that if you believe in Him you would have eternal life and not perish. You who are reading this are precious to Him and you are fearfully and wonderfully made as are those in the womb.
God has only the very best for you in mind and “He doesn’t make no junk.” All can receive Him and if you are reading this right now it is not a mistake. God led you to read this and He is calling you to Himself. What will your response be?