From the beginning, you were intended.

I listened to Jeremiah 1 this morning, like 3 times.

I love this Chapter.  Maybe you should take a quick 3 minutes and listen!  http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Jer.1

Can you believe how rich this is?

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you."


To form something is to have a vision in mind, and turn it into reality.  What's His vision for me?  He made me this certain way for a purpose.  Now I have to discover what that could be!

What an opportunity for adventure!


Does this mean He loved us before He made us?  He made us because He loved us?

We are the crowning glory of His creation!  More majestic than the universe, more impressive than the sea, you are.

Think on that for a moment:

how special you are to Him
how intricate you were made, even in your mothers womb
how His love for you propelled Him to form you
how you are just not the result of a conception, you were known long before even your mother's conception
how He devoted His focus to your being
how He saw you from the beginning, and had good things for you even then


This does not speak to the importance of life beginning at conception, NO, this speaks to each life having purpose, destiny, from the beginning of existence.  From before the creation of the earth!

whoa.

I hope to grasp a sliver of this meaning before the day's out.  Me, purpose, destiny, formed with great intention, not just a result of a...well, you get the picture.

And then there's the whole, "He knew me" aspect.  All my faults, shame, sins, and still, with great deliberation He thought on me, and made me.

wow.

Conquer today!!!! BE who He intends!!!  Rest in His knowledge of your name.

He cares for you.