I am writing ahead – I will be on vacation traveling:

I have barely been keeping up with world news but certainly when one hears of an earthquake – it is big new – no one has an explanation for why some regions are more prone – sure there are scientific reasons but it is one of those broken earth – broken world – situations…  And so we pray for those lost and those left behind – and this headline is one that always grabs your attention – baby and mom pulled from rubble in the venezuela earthquake – wow – the mom felt the first tremors and quickly went to her son’s crib and grabbed him – then they both fell with the building – and she realized she was in a hole – stuck – rocks holding her legs and against her cheek – and her baby was in her arms and a bible under her leg. She said that the baby kept her going – if he was alive then I was alive. The earthquake was Sunday and their rescue was Thursday. She said she would just touch her baby’s nose to know that the baby was still alive. Whew… Wow… The dad who was unharmed and not at home, after their rescue said when I saw him I felt that I was born again… Yeah – wow!!!

Link to news story: Venezuela earthquake: Mum rescued from rubble with newborn baby tells BBC how he helped her survive

Yes, we live for our children’s futures – and the future generations – and we have to remember that by others, our whole lives and before we were born, we have been under prayers – lifted up in prayers – held in prayer. Surely our great grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles – surely so many who came before us (even the government or church people from long time ago) were thinking of these generations – our generations. I love that phrase that if you are happy and blessed – remember that others were praying for you…  This is our encouragement to pray for others.

Well, the One Who knows us best – God – His Psalm 139 reminds us that He Himself has known us from before we were formed in our mother’s wombs…  Yes…  

Thank You Lord for everything – You live for the future – so can we.

Amen

Psalm 139 NKJV

God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.

Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting