Jeremiah 1:5

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."

I was reading the Bible yesterday and the power of this one line had such an impact on me that I am still pondering it today. Of course, this is part of the story of Jeremiah, who was a prophet in his time, but think of how that one line resonates with you, and everyone else, today and through the ages. If you think of the magnitude of this statement it is quite overwhelming and, frankly, sad, when you think of life from God's perspective. 

I think of an artist that has created a piece. Sure, it is an inanimate object, but that artist thought about it, sketched it out, designed it with specific colors, textures and objects. He or she made it a specific size and then shared it with everyone so that they too could be moved by it as well. That one piece has a part of the artist retained in it and, as an artist myself, I know that the piece is cherished even if it isn't kept. Usually with artists, no two original pieces are alike. That is the beauty of being an artist; you create pieces that are as unique as the sand granules on a beach or a snowflake.

God has done the same with us. Before He formed us, He thought of how we would look; who we would be; what we would accomplish and what gifts He was going to give us in order to do that work. He designed our senses, our thought process and our perceptions. He knew our hopes and our dreams. He knew what would make us laugh and He knew what would make us cry. He knew what part of the world He was going to put us into, so that we could learn the life lessons that we needed to learn in order for our souls to be enriched or for us to enrich someone else. He had a plan for each one of us. Before we were a twinkle in our parents' eyes, we were a twinkle in God's eyes. God knew us before we were conceived as a life in a womb, and He had great aspirations for us.  

How incredibly heartbreaking it must be for Him to watch us terminate that life with a pill or a procedure. What a very sad society we have become....

Earliest embryo stages in a human life