August 21, 2023: Psalm 139:16 - God Fashioned Our Days Before We Were Born
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” - Psalm 139:16
One of the biggest lies of Satan is that people are products of evolution through the process of natural selection. Contrast that with what the Bible, including Psalm 139 teaches: God’s created us and has perfect knowledge of us even before we were born. In Psalm 139:16, it tells us that God fashioned or ordered our days before we were even born. In the book of Jeremiah, it is written:
“Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.’” (Jeremiah 1:4-5)
Almighty God is the one true God, and He is a God of order. Everything He does has a design and a purpose, and that includes you and me. He designed us perfectly, with an extremely complex DNA code that we are still trying to understand today. Of our DNA, in his book titled “The Road Ahead,” Bill Gates, most likely an atheist or agnostic wrote, “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” (See: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/431168) All computer programs require a programmer, and with the case of our DNA, Almighty God designed it.
If you look at the shape of DNA, it is a double helix. Per the National Human Genome Research Institute: (See: https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Deoxyribonucleic-Acid-Fact-Sheet#:~:text=DNA%27s%20unique%20structure%20enables%20the,of%20the%20original%20DNA%20molecule.)
“Scientist use the term "double helix" to describe DNA's winding, two-stranded chemical structure. This shape - which looks much like a twisted ladder - gives DNA the power to pass along biological instructions with great precision.”
“DNA's unique structure enables the molecule to copy itself during cell division. When a cell prepares to divide, the DNA helix splits down the middle and becomes two single strands. These single strands serve as templates for building two new, double-stranded DNA molecules - each a replica of the original DNA molecule.”
What are the odds that through evolution and natural selection, this “great precision” came about? The odds are impossible. Yet, the lie is consumed and believed by many. To believe the lie is to believe that there is no God, that He will not hold us accountable one day for our actions and for our rejection of His Son Jesus Christ. Or, even worse, instead of believing in the one true God, we believe that we can become gods - false gods - such as Yuval Noah Hurari and Claus Schwab and many other transhumanists believe: (See: https://blog.coursera.org/history-began-when-humans-invented-gods-and-will/)
“Sapiens will soon disappear. With the help of novel technologies, within a few centuries or even decades, Sapiens will upgrade themselves into completely different beings, enjoying godlike qualities and abilities.
“History began when humans invented gods – and will end when humans become gods.” (Yuval Noah Harari blog entry)
Mr. Harari is willfully deceived by the lies of Satan because his heart is filled with pride and ego, which is the same stumbling block that has caused the fall of millions of people, if not billions, and it is what caused the fall of Satan, also called Lucifer, who wants to be God.
God has given each one of us, including Mr. Harari, free will, and that includes the free will to believe or not believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior. With that free will and the choice we make as to what to do with Jesus, and no choice is a choice not to believe in Him, we also will receive the consequences of our choice.
God knew us before He even created us in the womb. He did not create us as robots, and He did not create us as animals. He created us in His image and gave us a soul. He put a longing in us, a sense of knowing that our life on this earth this is not where we belong and that we will spend our eternity somewhere. He gave us a strong desire to search for something, as written in Ecclesiastes by King Solomon:
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
King Solomon had it all, riches beyond what had ever been known at the world at that time and possibly for all time, all the power and prestige of being a king, and all the sexual intercourse he could ever want with all his wives and concubines, which was sinful in the eyes of God, and yet, in the end, King Salmon lamented that it was all vanity. He was miserable because he had filled his life with everything and everyone except with God. Here, he refers to himself as the “Preacher”:
“‘Vanity of vanities,’ says the Preacher, ‘all is vanity.’” (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
The book of Ecclesiastes ends with the truth:
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 3:13-14)
For everyone who has been saved by Jesus Christ, by believing in Him as our Savior, who is the only one who can redeem us of all our sins, we are judged at the judgment seat of Christ. However, we are not judged to determine if we are saved or not, because our salvation is assured by our belief in Jesus. At our judgment seat, Jesus will determine whether the things we did for Him were done for the right reasons or the wrong reasons and we will receive our rewards for the things we did for the right reasons. (2 Corinthians 5:10) However, unbelievers will appear before Jesus at the Great White Throne and will be judged by Him based on their works. Since no work that we can do, no good deed, can save us from our sins - only belief in Jesus Christ as our Savior can do that - all unbelievers will be found guilty and cast into the eternal lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11-15)
As Psalm 139:16 reads, God fashioned our days for us, and one day, our time will be up. Our time here on earth will be done, and we will exit our life here and enter the first day of our eternity. I ask you these questions: Do you believe you were created by God for a purpose? Do you have a hole or a void in your life that you are trying to fill with everything but God? When your last day is done, when you take your final breath and your heart beats its last beat, where are you going to spend your eternity - heaven or hell? As King Solomon wrote, death comes to all of us:
“Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity. Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.” (Ecclesiastes 8:10-13)
“Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well. Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:6-7) ✝️