SUPERVISED!
Psalms 139:16 NLT
[16] “You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”
Wow! That’s an amazing statement! God was watching and supervising him while he was still being formed? Yes! He was watching every cell and every organ in David’s body being formed, ensuring that the process of his growth from one cell to a fully formed person was perfect and uninterrupted? Yes! Just David? Yes!
Why just him? You see, he couldn’t answer for God when it came to every other person on earth but for David, that’s who He was …his CREATOR and Supervisor.
The same for my history. God is God…the one who knows and plans everything from beginning to end. My whole life was laid out before Him before I even came into existence. He saw every day, written in my book of life, and He ensures that every day happens as He planned, and yet…I choose to live every day as I want. How does that work? I have no idea but, that’s what David said.
As David came to the end of each day, good day or bad day, he knew that God was always with him, guiding and guarding him through every situation and circumstance. Some days were uneventful, and he gladly acknowledged God’s goodness to him. Some days were full of trouble and danger. How happy he was that he could call on the Lord and, again, He was there to help him. So, for David, every day meant that the Lord and he were in it together. He was so full of faith that he knew that his days happened just as God had planned.
What a way to live! When bad things happen, there is no need to panic or to blame the Lord for letting them happen. God has already written the story of tomorrow, so I can trust Him that tomorrow will happen and will keep on happening until the last page in my book.
The thought behind David’s sentiments is simple. Why was God so involved in his mother’s pregnancy? Not only because He had chosen this baby to be the future king of Israel, but also because He wanted to have intimate fellowship with him as a human son.
A few years ago, as I vividly remember, I said something in the presence of my pastor which exaggerated the truth. I was extremely uncomfortable until I confessed my sin to my pastor. His response, I will never forget. He said to me, “Isn’t the Holy Spirit precious, that He wants to protect our fellowship with the Father?”
No blame, no condemnation, nor judgment! Just mercy! What a way to look at sin…anything we think or do without the Father…and without Jesus that spoils our fellowship with God. Our fellowship with Him is so precious that He watched and shaped the way we were formed…and He watches and shapes the way we live so that nothing interferes with our fellowship with Him.
Just as He supervised our life in the womb, so He cares about every move we make, every word we speak, interrupting where necessary to rebuke, correct, and restore us to the way we are to go to reach His goal…perfect likeness to Jesus, His blueprint for His human sons.
God is not a killjoy who stands in the way of our enjoying life. God is a Father who knows that every moment without Him is wasted. He treasures every moment with us, and does everything to protect our fellowship and keep us from going our own foolish way.
If God is so committed to guarding and guiding us from birth to death, is it any wonder, then, that David would recognise His involvement with him from the moment of conception. If that was David’s awareness, we can be sure that each of us, dear readers, is equally precious to God and under His supervision and scrutiny every moment of every day.
What a comfort to know that we are under God’s care, always in His sights, and being carefully monitored, not to punish but to bless! We can be confident of this perfect love and live in it without fear because the Lord has control of every detail of what concerns us.
1 John 4:18 NIV
[18] “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”