Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Who made me anyway? S30e55 Ps139
The greatest witness to me of the existence of God, is the existence of ME.
One thing we surely cannot forget is that I did not make myself.
One thing we surely cannot fail to notice is that I am wonderfully made.
What if it were really true that God formed my parts and gave me life. If so, this changes everything. Join me for 7 minutes to see where all your parts came from.
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Who made me anyway? S30e55 Ps139
Is God too close for comfort? Yes. Why yes He is.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
.I cannot flee from your presence. If I go up. You are there. If I go down, you are there. If I fly on the wings of morning to the uttermost distance, you are there.
There your hand is upon me. Your hand leads me. Your hand holds me. I cannot hide in darkness for darkness is not dark to you.
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
.How pro-life is God? How pro-life is God with your form? With your creation?
You mean to tell me that I was formed and thought of while I was carried in the womb of my mother?
I was knitted, I was formed, I was fearfully and wonderfully made
By extension then, when was my value established? Right from the beginning. When is the beginning? Long before I was even born.
For those of you who have seen a birth, or better, followed the development of the knitting for 9 month on some app is to see the process of God Himself
He takes great pleasure in all of this.
My soul knows the mastery of your production, the wonder of your works. Why? BECAUSE I AM ONE OF THEM.
When I was being made “in secret” for 9 months, behind an ever increasing belly, My frame was not hidden from you
I was woven,
YOU SAW me when I was yet unformed. My frame not hidden.
It was “secret” but not to you.
It was fearfully and wonderful, yet understood and directed by you
You FORMED my inward parts. Knitted me in my mothers’ womb
And as for the number of days…
Before I even had my first day, I had had many and You made me
Before I even had my first day, my last day was written and known
Before I even had my first day, all the days inbetween were known by You.
On the heels of the searched, known, tried, tested soul of Ps 139
It was known perfectly, intimately, wholely
Even the structure that we use to chronologically talk about myself:
I had a birthday. I was born on…I am this many years old…Today is…
He made the structure of time that I was made apart from, then put into
Which is harder, to make time? To make a human? To make you timeless?
my soul knows it very well.
The greatest witness to me, of the existence of God, is the existence of ME
I know I did not make myself. I couldn’t even make a single cell.
Much less a symphony of cells making structures and then coordinating them to great effect: liver that purifies, digestive system that does energy harvesting, eyes that handle and interpret photons,
I know I did not make any of that, and yet, I can delineate between this amazing structure, ME, and all the other amazing structures: Not me
CONCLUSions
Maybe today is a milestone birthday, or maybe today is just another Monday
But here you are. Fearfully and wonderfully made. Knitted together in supportive functioning. The most amazing machine you will ever be put in charge of.
The response is not meh! The response is, I KNOW THIS. I know I didn’t do this.
I know YOU did. Who is this Creator. Who is the great knitter? Who is the Wonderful Maker? Who is it that has woven me? Who is He who saw in secret and made?
Who is it that gave me life BEFORE He gave me days?
Who is it then, who had design, aim and intention for me
And then exerted that into the structure of time
How do I respond?
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
I praise. I recognize three things: That you are. That your work is me. It is a wonder