Our length of days; David's soul and Psalm 139, verse 16.

This Psalm is a truly intimate portrayal of the deep relationship David had with His Lord. Once lets it's truths soak in and be absorbed by your soul and you will not be the same again. For to know how much God is involved in the minutiae of our daily lives and why it is that He can be- because of who He is, is in itself restoration enough of what it means to be human and loved.

But today it is to two particular verses that I turn. Psalm 139 and verses 15 and 16.

"My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

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."

To know this is to know that you are special.

To know that all the days that there will be for you have already been settled even before there were any, is mindbogglingly wonderful; it is reassuring and of great comfort. You will not pass from this earth one moment too late or one moment too early. Thank God for that! There is no one else who has control over my life, over your life contrary to what it may seem and anyway who would want such a responsibility? Only surely someone who knows all, is present everywhere, and is all powerful and yet is gracious, full of mercy, compassionate and just.

This is our God, and thank God our times are in his hands.