In Psalm 139, song writer and poet King David celebrates God's intimate knowledge of every detail of David and his life. The One who made him knows everything about him and there's no place David can go that the Lord cannot watch over, guide and sustain him. This psalm affirms the omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence of God; His qualities of knowing all things, having all power and being unlimited by time and space. And it applies to us as much as it did to King David.
David also teaches us that God knew the scope and details of our lives even before we were born: "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." (Ps 139:16).
I was ordained after I responded to God's call and was trained for pastoral ministry. To be ordained meant that I was designated by an official authority for the specialized work and purpose of Christian pastoral ministry and invested with the requisite authority for that purpose.
When I consider that all of our days, however many that might end up being for each of us, have been ordained by God, I am overwhelmed by the inherent and holy value God has place on every day of our lives. Every day we have has been given to us by God for His kingdom work and for His eternal purposes. We might not all be ordained in the sense of specialized Christian ministry but every day that we draw breath has been designated by our Creator as a holy period of time to be used for His glory. A reminder of that every morning will encourage us to go into each day with a new and exciting sense of purpose and meaning.
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