Devotion:
Society uses the word "reproduction" for the process of having children. Eliminate the prefix and you are left with the word "production." This encourages us to think of children as "products" that we can create or dispose of, at will. This stubborn attempt to live independent of our Creator only repeats Adam and Eve's sin of pride; sin, which only leads to death, destruction and separation from God.
Thankfully, God, too, is blessedly stubborn. He orchestrated an amazing gesture to show us how precious we really are. In today's Scripture we glimpse into our loving Creator's mind. We see that our lives are not "products" from an assembly line, but individual designs that have been personally created and redeemed.
His plan of redemption took a human shape the moment He conceived Jesus as an embryo in the womb of Mary. God's Son took on flesh and bones - a human body. God's love now has a face. A face that grew up as a man and stubbornly walked directly to the cross for our sins.
As creatures, we are completely dependent upon our Creator who gives and sustains all earthly life. This same God - who personally created man in Eden, is still deliberately at work creating and restoring life today.
Dear Father, thank you for creating me and all creatures, and for Your divine plan to redeem Your children. Please make me mindful of Your stubborn love for me as I look to the death and resurrection of Jesus for my complete salvation. In the name of Christ, Amen.
Ms. Maggie Karner
Life Ministries (Lutheran Church - MO Synod)
National Pro Life Religious Council
Your eyes saw my substance,
being yet unformed.
And in Your book, they were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
Psalm 139:16
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