God Always Knew You

For you formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.

Psalm 139:13

God knew you before you were born. He knows the moment when you were conceived. In every phase of development, from that moment on, He is there. The human embryo is not the result of a biological accident. God is aware of the union of the sperm and the egg and the attachment of the embryo to the uterine lining and the development of human life. God formed the inward parts and arranged the genetic structure. God knows about that human life and loves that human life from the very moment of its union.

In every cell of your body there is enough information to re-create your adult person as if no other cell were necessary. And every time that cell divides in the process of your growth, all the information contained in each cell is part of the division. Someone has reasoned that if all of the instructions in the DNA of one cell were written out, it would take a thousand six-hundred-page books to put all that information down. And God put it in a cell that no one can see without magnification. And it’s in every cell of your body. God did it so you would have your identity. You are unique. You are individually precious to God.