We begin our final
week of sitting with Psalm 139 by contemplating verse 16:
Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In Your book were written all the days that were formed for me when none of
them as yet existed.
Can it really be true that God has a plan for every life? The psalmist is convinced that all of our days are known to our Maker
long before our physical beings take shape. What's required of us to accept
that? First, we must dismiss every doubt that it's possible. Our faith in
God’s power to part time’s curtain and observe the particulars of our daily
lives must be secure. But perhaps the bigger faith-leap comes when we confess
that God is able to know our past, present, and future, and yet summon the
restraint to allow us to live as we will. What we’re given—our making, history,
circumstances, talents, and so on—is by design. What we do
with our gifts (even those we don’t perceive as gifts) is up to us. God endows
each of us with innumerable choices. God knows how we’ll respond to our gifts,
whether we’ll embrace and cherish our making or despise and reject it. The
gifts and choices specific to each of us are laid out before us. They’re in God’s
book. Deciding to use them as God desires, to honor our Creator in all that we are and everything we do, rests entirely with us.
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