Known Before You Were Born

          Do you know everything that is going on around you? I seriously doubt that I know very much about what is going on around me and with my neighbors and the people out on the street. I usually check the obituaries to find out who passed away in the most recent days and sometimes find that a person died a number of days ago that I had known. There have been times when a person has spoken to me about some occurrence in their life and and I have to say, “My goodness. I didn't know that.” Our lack of knowledge about our surroundings, become so much more evident when we see what God knows. Jeremiah 1:5 says, “ Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

        There was a purpose in Jeremiah's life even before he was born. He didn't know about it but nonetheless, it was there. We also see evidence of this in Psalm 139 where God knows all about our getting up and sitting down and where we are and what we are even thinking about. We cannot fathom the mind of God. It would be easy for us to think that the men like David and Jeremiah were special and that God knew all about them because they had a special part to play in God's plan. Since God is God however, we can also come to the logical conclusion that he also knows each and everyone of us. It is probably natural for us to think that God is having a hard time keeping up with each person's life especially when there are now over 7.6 billion people on the face of the earth plus all those that died in the past and all those that are going to be born. It is hard for us to fathom how there is no “time” with God. Let's face it, we cannot understand all there is to know about God but we accept the facts of the Word of God about His character which includes such things as His unchanging character, His justice, His holiness, His love and so on. In the end, we accept the fact that not only does He know about the life of the great people of the Bible such as Jeremiah or Ezekiel or Isaiah, but He also knows all there is to know about you and me. We are not being proud to know such things because God is greater than we can possibly ever imagine. He knows your thoughts today and He knows what you are going to come up against even in the next few moments are on October 28 or even on your next birthday. It should be a comfort for us to read of passages like today's verse that states that even before Jeremiah was conceived, God knew Him and called Him for a special work. We often think about our spiritual gift or gifts that God has given to each believer and He knows which ones you have and gives you the power to perform them. How great is that? As God knew Jeremiah and David and Ezekiel and Isaiah and Paul and Peter, He knows you. Praise God that there is nothing that is hid from Him.