Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” The first half of this verse applies to all humans. The second part applies specifically to the prophet Jeremiah but has implications for all God’s people. In the first part, God reveals that when He creates a person, it is from a plan that He has developed before He began forming them “in the womb.” He not only knows what He is going to make, He actually knows the person as though they have already been made.
God is sovereign over our makeup and wiring, our personality, our gifts, our talents, our height, and all the rest of our physical attributes. Perhaps the best passage of Scripture to point this out is found in the book of Psalms. So this Sunday we are going to take a close look at Psalm 139:13-16 in order to affirm the sanctity of human life in the womb.