Before Our Birthday

When any of us give thought to the day of our beginning, we usually point to the day we know as our birthday.  Indeed, each remembrance of that day we first breathed the air of this earth becomes a special part of the story told by the presence of our family.  But, as we know, the moment of birth is not the moment of beginning for as we read what the Word says to us, we come to understand the life that we live visible on the earth was first lived in an invisible form in the womb.    

One of the Biblical passages to which we are drawn as we give consideration to our beginning is found in the 139th Psalm.  The invisible beginning of our life is described in verse 16 as the Word of God says, "Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.  In Your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed."  It is a reminder that all that is now seen existed in the realm of the unseen.     

It is also a reminder that what is unseen on its way to becoming is inside the providential care and grace of the Creator.  Those invisible lives that never make it to the visible realm of being held by loving parents were never out of the sight of the Heavenly Father who knew them, loved them, and prepared a place for them in the eternal home as surely as He has prepared such a home for those of us who came from the invisible into the visible.  God is faithful to care for us from before we are known to after we become a memory.