Please indulge me for one more day with this verse: On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived. Luke 2:21
Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Job 31:15
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:13-16
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived. Luke 2:21
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Jesus purpose preexisted His earthly body.
As it is for us all.
We are not Christ, of course, but we are, indeed...each of us...an integral part of His Body on Earth.
Your purpose, and mine, has been determined for centuries. Some of us choose to accept that; others do not. Our life should be pointed toward accepting that purpose that God has determined for us...before we were even conceived...and fulfilling that which He has in His mind for us...while we were still in our mothers' wombs.
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Questions:
1. How does the idea that God knows you before your birth, strike you?
2. How about the idea that He has had a purpose for you since before you were conceived?
3. How does any of this affect your day to day life?
INTERESTING THOUGHTS:
"There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning."
Thomas Aquinas
"Let things true be preferred to things false,
things eternal to things momentary,
things useful to things agreeable."
Lucius Caelius Lactantius
"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear:
He is not what he is capable of being."
G.K. Chesterton
"MAN: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what
he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be."
Ambrose Bierce
"A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future
than he can eat enough for the next six months,
or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week.
We must draw upon God's boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it."
D.L. Moody
"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit,
vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty,
come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may,
you are and ever must be the Lord's.
For this is written on your heart,
'We love Him because He first loved us.'"
Charles Spurgeon
"The soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body."
Johann Albrecht Bengel
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