The other day I was with this sweet girl. She pointed out a mark on her hand and said “Jesus gave this to me”. I was very doubtful & questioning, “Jesus gave this to you?” She said “yeah, I was born with it.” Understanding now that the birthmark on her hand is what she was referring too. She asked me “did Jesus give you any marks?”. I told her about one of my birthmarks. But her question made me stop & think. It’s like she got something that I did not.
Her words “Jesus gave this to me” is like she understood that Jesus actually knows her, like intimately, that birthmarks aren’t happen-chance, that there is a God in heaven who formed, made, & created her. He created you & I. He created & knows the number of hairs on our head. So in life when my soul quickly forgets where my worth is I’m reminded that I’ve been formed by the creator, loved by the creator, made new by the creator & yes even in a beautiful way marked by the creator.
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your 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.”
Psalm 139:1-4 & 13-16
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