Today we are challenged to share a Bible verse with others.
A verse that has been very significant to me for much of my life is from Psalm 139 love the whole psalm, but especially verse 13
For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
My mother did not want ten kids. When she was pregnant for the fifth time she was very resentful and unhappy. She had four little boys under the age of 5; she did not want another baby. And then, she told me, I was born the little girl her heart desired, and she promised God she would never resent another pregnancy no matter how many she had.
I felt bad, not glad, when she told me this. I felt like I was somehow responsible for the large family, all the work.
But when I found this verse it was like ointment on a wound. God knew me and loved me from the beginning. God was there with me in my mother’s womb. Thanks be to God.