© 2013 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!” (Psalm 139:13-17 – KJV)
The above quote is from a prayer to God by King David, the Psalmist of old. David understands that he owes his being to the “marvelous” work of God. Notice: God cared for him, even in his mother’s womb. In fact, God’s care for him predated even that. God had designed all his “members” even before they existed in physical form.
For many years, I was an engineer and engineering manager for a major medical devices company. Our best work was done when we carefully recorded the design details of a proposed product in engineering notebooks before we began building it. When King David refers to the book in which “all my members were written,” he is recognizing that God had already established his value even before conception. An obvious corollary to this is that any conceived human life already has value in the eyes of God.
If you are one who encourages the murder of what you call “fetal tissue,” understand that you are operating in a manner hostile to the Holy God who engineered that little life. That same God who cared for you, when you were that “fetal tissue,” is the same God who cares for that little life you would destroy.
Are you destroying yourself by opposing Him, or will you repent and call out to Him for mercy based on the blood of Christ? He is God, the Son, who offered Himself in sacrificial death for repentant sinners who come to Him. He says, “… him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37).
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