I was holding a newborn baby in my arms as I read this psalm today and I could not help but focus on the mother’s womb imagery used to exemplify God’s omniscience and omnipresence.
13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16Your 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.
Before the baby was born, many dinner conversations in our house revolved around baby development talk and the progression of growth stages the little one was experiencing. The parents agreed that he would have big feet and no bum in reflection of their own body types. The rest of us all placed bets on the date the baby might arrive and guessed his weight. Yet God saw him before we were able to meet him. While we prepared for his arrival and talked to his mother’s stomach, God knew him.
The presence of God is something I find particularly challenging to understand, study and talk about. If I read this passage at any other time I likely would have scoffed and put the Bible away. For some reason while I was holding that magical baby, having watched his mother’s stomach expand to accommodate the creation happening inside her and knowing of his traumatic birth my mind was open to thinking about God’s involvement and presence in this life.
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