Wonderfully Made

You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalm 139:13

Before I was formed in my mother’s womb—whosever womb that was—God knew me.

I was thirty-three years old when I first learned that I was adopted. The underpinnings of my world shifted radically and immediately, but because of my faith in God, they resettled in a more secure place as I comprehended such emotional news.

As I stood in my mother’s kitchen, looking at her, my brother, and my sister-in-law, I remembered God’s Word. I knew He knitted together my innermost parts and fashioned all my days before there was even one of them. I knew I was fearfully and wonderfully made. I knew that God had always known I was adopted, and He had always loved me. I may not have been who I thought I was, but I was still who He said I was. And I was loved. I was His.

In the wake of that life-changing discovery, God’s very real love for me was holding me together. I knew His love was always relentless, unyielding, passionate, unfailing, perfect. And a feeling of peace—of supernatural peace—engulfed me. This loving God was in control of my life.

And He is in control of yours. If you’ve been rocked by an emotional earthquake, look to Him; His love will hold you together too.

Your gift of love, God, sustains me when my world turns upside down, and I am grateful. I love You, Lord.