Oh Lord My God, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. YOU WATCHED ME as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. 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.” (Psa. 139:13-16)
This is a beautiful description of us, written from the created to the Creator. God knows us so thoroughly because He made us. God knew us because He formed us. Even with the advances of science, there is still a lot that we cannot begin to comprehend about ourselves. All we can do is look at our God with awe and wonder. Since we are fearfully (awesomely) and wonderfully made, then that makes the Lord God Almighty an awesome and wonderful Creator and a truly loving Father! “I praise you because I am FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY MADE; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psa. 139:14) Jesus said this about those children who were crying out praise to the Lord, to the chief priests and scribes who were indignant, “Jesus said them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise’?“ (Matt. 21:16)
These children were doing what we all were created to do until sin contaminated our lives. The adamic sin nature is that aspect in man that makes him rebellious against God because of Adam’s sin. “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” (Rom. 3:23) “…just as sin entered the world THROUGH ONE MAN (Adam), and death through sin, and in this way DEATH CAME TO ALL people, because all sinned—” (Rom. 5:12) Jesus said this about children, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to SUCH AS THESE. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a LITTLE CHILD (paidion: a younger child (perhaps seven years old or younger) WILL NEVER ENTER it.” (Luke 18:16-17) About children, when Bathsheba baby was born out of wedlock David, who was fasting for the baby, said, “But now HE IS DEAD; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I SHALL GO TO HIM, but he shall not return to me.” (2 Sam. 12:23-24) So, it would seem that a young child is a candidate for heaven if he dies young.
What we all must do is, “…repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins MAY BE WIPED AWAY. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and He will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah.” (Acts 3:19-20)
-Bill Stockham