{"id":5401,"date":"2023-03-15T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T21:22:52","slug":"ultimate-ultrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"ULTIMATE ULTRASOUND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>God has feelings, strong feelings about everything He created, and keeps on creating&#8212;most especially people, made &#8216;in His image.&#8217;<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>When God made the world, He simply said &#8220;it was so&#8221; and &#8220;it was good.&#8221;<br>When God made man and gave him dominion over everything, He said &#8220;it was so&#8221; and &#8220;it was VERY GOOD!&#8221;<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>God is pleased with all of His creation, but He has special feelings for the people He created&#8212;love and sadness, smile and frown, joy and grief, pleasure and anger, compassion and regret&#8212;feelings demonstrated in action&#8212;mercy and judgment, forgiveness and justice, patience and accountability, day of grace and day of reckoning.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>Consider God&#8217;s very special feelings about the little children He created and still creates with us, safe and unseen ?<br>He sure talks a lot about His feelings for them in His Book.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>Consider His horror over harm to any of them.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>What about the person who causes such harm ?<br>&#8220;If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble . . . &#8220;<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>What about the death of a child ?<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>What about the murder of a child ?<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>What about the person who causes the murder of a child ?<br>\u201cBut whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble (to sin) (to die), it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.&#8221;<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>Before I was born, God knew all my DNA.<br>Before I was born, God knew my every breath.<br>Before I was born, God knew my life&#8217;s history.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>Why all the trouble with details ?<br>Because, besides all that, He loves me, He wants a relationship with me after I&#8217;m born, just like He had already knowing all about me for the nine months before I was born.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>Who would dare to mess with a God like that ?<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>&#8220;O Lord, You have searched me and known <em>me.<\/em><br>You know my sitting down and my rising up;<br>You understand my thought afar off.<br>You comprehend my path and my lying down,<br>And are acquainted with all my ways.<br>For there is not a word on my tongue,<br>But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For You formed my inward parts;<br>You covered me in my mother\u2019s womb.<br>I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;<br>Marvelous are Your works,<br>And that my soul knows very well.<br>My frame was not hidden from You,<br>When I was made in secret,<br>And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.<br>Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.<br>And in Your book they all were written,<br>The days fashioned for me,<br>When as yet there were none of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!<br>How great is the sum of them!<br>If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;<br>When I awake, I am still with You. 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