My Maker

As I am sitting on my bed folding laundry and feeling my unborn child move within me makes me think of Psalm 139: 11-16 which reads:

"If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 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, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." (NKJV)

I also like this version:

"Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!" It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you. Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day." (The Message)

I think of my son and am in awe that God has seen all that he will do before he has even even taken one breath of air. My spirit is so lifted by the thought of it.

I have looked at my life and all the things that have brought me to where I am now, and I often pray that my son has a lighter path to walk on than I have had. My motherly instinct is to hold him from the hardships of living a noteworthly life but I know that is not how is it meant to be because God takes us through our hardships as a test to see if we will stand by Him when our faith is at low tide so He can fill us with His grace.

I love my Maker. He is a good God.