So I just happened to watch this video while I was scanning Kathryn's blogger profile for good blogs to read and one line really jumped out to me:
"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 you saw my unformed body"
Now I had to think for a minute, because what the heck(k) could "depths of the earth" mean there?
I don't know if you've ever seen that Shirley Temple movie, I don't even remember which one it is, but she's like hanging out in heaven with all the kids who haven't been born yet. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, except to say that it's not truth, because, one, it's creepy, and two, it's not biblical.
But anyways, all those verses that surround it make sense and have a setting, even if the love they demonstrate is mind blowing. I could let Kelley guest write an entire blog post about how excited she got when she meditateted on the word "knit", as in "I knit you together in you mother's womb".
But this depths of the earth nonsense, what does that mean? And then I remembered that scripture is constantly reminding us that we come from dust. Example? One of my favourite psalms, 103, where it says, " As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust." So I took the scripture literaly. When you and I were a bunch of minerals spewing out of a volcano, when we were a tree decaying in a forrest, when we were the nitrogen something fixed, before we were even a cell in our mother's body, God knew us. God saw far more than the sum of our parts. He could not wait to behold us, send his son for us, send his spirit to us, so that we--made of dust--could have fellowship with mighty, everlasting God.
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