An Aha Moment

Since I was on the road today, I couldn't read my devotion book or Bible for my afternoon quiet-time for fear of being sick, so I just kind of sat there, trying to figure out how I was going to spend some special time with God and it didn't go so great at first. My mind bounced from subject to subject and in and out of day dreams until He just whispered for me to look at my hand.

When I did, the first thing I noticed was a cut I'd gotten the other day, but I looked more closely at it, more so than I've done to a cut in a very long time. I just started to think about it's shape and depth and then I started thinking about my skin and how complex it and all it does for me. Like it was healing itself right then, a scab had formed to keep gunk out and while it wasn't as thick as a bandage would've been, it stuck to the movement of my hand better than a bandage would have and it withstood water better, it was the perfect design. God's design.
He's made me perfectly and with great care so that one little cut so that little cuts like the one on my hand wont kill me or even slow me down really.

After I'd stared at my hand for a while, He told me to look at my arms and I realized that I have lots of little spots and freckles all over them in all different sizes, shapes, and even shades of colour. I'd always known of course that I had freckles on my arms, but when I was actually looking at them I realized that I had more than a couple and that's when He told me "I put every single one of those on you with great care, there's not an inch of you that I did not create and everything was made with love. I didn't just shove you through a mold, or assemble you on a conveyor belt, I knit you together in your mother's womb (Psalm 139:13) and I know every part of you down to the number of hairs on your head (Matthew 10:30). And I love you very very much."

My arm and hand are just pieces of my body and I didn't look at them in great detail even, I only saw the skin and things that were that deep. I don't understand what's happening with my body, but I do know that not a hair goes unknown to God and that He created it all with great care and a plan that I could never grasp. But, someone who's put that much love and effort into me wont steer me wrong or throw me under the bus. And when you add to that all the other stuff He's done for the world and the people on it....He's a good God, a great God, a holy and perfect God and I loved being able to spend time with Him today even if it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. :)