By Rev. Ronald Jansen
“What are you knitting?” I would ask when visiting a shut in, if I saw the needles, yarn and a partially knit project in a basket. Often, the person would answer, “Oh, I’m working on an afghan for my granddaughter’s wedding.” Or they might be knitting a baby covering for a great grandchild.
Now let your imagine run loose for a bit and picture God knitting you together. The author of Psalm 139 discovered. “You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”
I may have let my imagination run too far when it pictured God in a mother’s womb with 14 inch needles casting on and binding off on the way to kitting a human baby.
This coming Sunday is Sanctity of Life Sunday. I received an email this morning reporting on a study at a circuit pastor’s conference emphasizing that Jesus himself passed through all the stages of our existence from conception to death. Someone in the group pointed out that “what Jesus did not take on, he did not redeem.” The email continues thanking the Lord that Jesus did take on every part of our life. Jesus redeeming and rescuing work is most significant for the unborn, the senile, and every stage of in between, including the one you are in right now.
Pray the Lord helps us to see others (including ourselves) as being significant, not because of what we do or don’t do, not because of how we look, not due to our size, not because of our abilities or even potential abilities, but rather because in God’s view we are worth the ultimate price, the life and death of Jesus Christ, His Son, our Lord.
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