Yesterday, I was having a conversation with somebody close to me, just chatting about everyday stuff like we normally do. Things got a bit more serious when we began to talk about the past; how we both had endured ectopic pregnancies and lost our beautiful babies. After a while of talking about what we went through, I expressed how wonderful it is that we will someday meet these children that we lost. She said, “I don’t know if I really believe that, because they weren’t actually born and they didn’t even have a heartbeat when we lost them. Maybe they won’t be there.”
I explained to her how God knew us before we were even in our mothers womb, and she said, “I don’t understand how God could have known us before we were born. Where did he know us from?” I answered as best I could and vowed to myself to scour God’s word for more verses to show her that God knew us before this earth age; long before we were born. And that we would indeed be reunited with our loved ones.
I replayed our conversation in my head over and over because it’s very clear that God opened up this opportunity to show her his love and his eternal plan for all of us. I hope that what I said was a seed that God can use and grow in his own time.
Her reply made me sad, but it also made me realize how when God blesses us with truth, it’s so important to share that truth with others. We want everyone to know the Love of God and to have the same peace that we do; peace that surpasses all understanding. That peace is from God and it can never be taken away. But, one cannot experience it without having knowledge, because knowledge is truth, and knowing the truth allows us to understand God’s word rather than man’s traditions. In this case God’s word says he knew us before we were in our mothers womb. Man’s tradition says life starts at birth.
Sometimes we are blessed with the opportunity to be the one to share knowledge that will open doors for a person to really understand and grasp God’s love, which in turn draws them closer to our Heavenly Father. God can and does use us to help him save souls; that’s what this flesh age is all about. And never forget that God tells us that we are to share his word with others.
It’s important to always use discernment when sharing God’s word. For example, if you’re planting a seed with one who knows very little about God, start with milk before moving into the meat of his word. As my pastor always said, don’t overload someone’s donkey. If you hit people with too much it can shut them down or turn them away from God, instead of drawing them closer. God instructs us to plant seeds on fertile ground. When someone asks a question I believe that’s fertile ground and a critical opportunity to plant a seed!
Okay, so here are some verses that show God knew us before we entered our mother’s womb:
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will
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.
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:14
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalm 139:15
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Psalm 139:16
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 139:17
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Galatians 1:16
to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood…
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
Psalm 22:10
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
Psalm 71:6
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 10:10
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Job 10:11
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job 10:12
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began…
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
