Knit Together

December 14

(Psalm 139:13-18 NIV) “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. {14} I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. {15} 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, {16} your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

(Isaiah 49:1-6 NIV) ““Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name. {2} He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver. {3} He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor." {4} But I said, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the Lord's hand, and my reward is with my God." {5} And now the Lord says-- he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength-- {6} he says: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.””

(Jeremiah 1:4-5 NIV) ““The word of the Lord came to me, saying, {5} "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.””

When Scripture says something once, it speaks with authority. When Scripture says something three times, we had better take note. Three prophetic voices (Isaiah, Jeremiah and David) speak essentially the same message to us today. God formed you in your mother’s womb, He knew you before you were born, and He has a plan for your life. The Lord knit us together. He is the Creator of life. When the pre-born are snuffed out, a creation of God’s is destroyed. Someone that God had plans for -- someone that God wrote a storyline for -- someone with a future ordained by God -- is eliminated and a page is torn from God’s book of lives. Woe to those who tear pages from God’s book. But if you are alive today, you were not an accident. God has set you apart for something special. You were created with a purpose. Discover it, and live it out in all the days ordained for you. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day