Psalm 139:16
God Knew Us Before We Were Born
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Jeremiah 1:5
God Knew Jeremiah Before He Was Born
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Matthew 1:23
God is With Us
23 "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us").
Acts 17:24-28
God Appoints Us Our Time in History and Where We Live
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Matthew 19:4-6
God Joins Us Together in Marriage
4 “ Haven't you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Psalm 90:1-17
A prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
throughout all generations.
2 Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
3 You turn people back to dust,
saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”
4 A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
they are like the new grass of the morning:
6 In the morning it springs up new,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 We are consumed by your anger
and terrified by your indignation.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
10 Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
11 If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
12 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
16 May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hand.
Often (or so I think) we do not think a lot about God and how He is in our own personal lives...The Psalmist tells us that God knew us even before we were born...Another author, Jeremiah, the Prophet, says a very similar thing -God knew him, before he was in his mother's womb...Then St. Paul tells us that God gives each of us our life and our breath and everything else...St. Paul does not say the LORD gives us life and breath and a couple of things...No, St. Paul says God gives us everything else -which is a lot of things throughout our lives...Then Jesus tells us that even in our married life, God is the One who joins us together...God is the One who allows us to meet with the people we meet and the spouses we will take in marriage...God is the One putting us and joining us together...God is truly with us...
So God knows us before we are born in the womb...And before we are born as He writes us in His Book of Life...He appoints the time when we come to be born on earth and even the nation where we shall live...Then He allows us to meet different people and we are joined together in marriage by His doing...So He really is working in our lives, as we are His children...And though many of our days He seems to be far away, in fact, He is not far from any of us...
I would say that besides Jesus, Moses was the closest to God...God was truly in the life of Moses...And God was with Moses and Moses was with God for many years...Moses constantly needed God's help in his life (and God was right there, so near to him)...Moses had and prayed a prayer about our lives with God...Psalm ninety is a prayer that Moses would pray...He says our years go by quickly and then we fly away, it seems life goes by in a blink...If we are lucky our lives will be seventy years or eighty years, and more if our strength can endure...He asks God to be active in his life and to teach us to number our days, so that we might gain a heart full of wisdom...He asks God to satisfy us each morning (morning time is a good time to be with God) with His unfailing LOVE, so that we may sing for joy and be glad for all these days that we will have on earth...Even make us glad and welcome our afflicted days-those days that are negative and don't go well for us, as well as those days when we sing in joy...
If there was anyone in the Ancient Scriptures who knew God, it was Moses...Moses saw the need for prayer in one's life...Moses knew it takes diligent and constant prayer to gain wisdom from our Father...In all the years in the desert, Moses knew that God had seen our sins and He has forgiven us...In God's mercy, as He is with us in life through the Holy Spirit, He gives us gladness and joy...May God's glory show through in how we treat others and in our deeds and the work that we do...May His favor rest upon us, when we show others that the Holy Spirit is truly in us and in our personal lives...