God knows everything about us

Today, I feel so blessed, at rest, and fulfilled.  Nothing huge happened today.  Well, not huge in the natural.  However, in the supernatural, I witnessed a small glimpse of how God works.  When we get home from picking Luke up at school, we usually talk about what he learned, if he listened to his teachers, what kind of day he had, etc.  We did all that, and I had some deep cleaning to do in my bedroom and bathroom.  Luke and Jacob played on their own.  A couple of hours later, we went back downstairs.  As I was preparing the food to cook for dinner, Luke popped out Jeremiah 1:5 "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."  Um, WOW!  I had no idea he knew that verse, and word for word at that!  I had to stop myself from jumping up and down and showing too much excitement.  If you are a mom of boys, you probably know what I'm talking about.  At least with Luke, he gets embarrassed and irritated if you make too big a deal out of anything.  He immediately says "I'm bored with that, talk to you later".  LOL!

The point of this long story is that I started to meditate on what my 5 year old son was quoting to me.  I really started thinking of just how much God, the Creator of the universe, loves ME!  He used an unsuspecting, sweet boy to remind me that He KNOWS everything about me.  Before HE formed me, he knew me!  What a concept!  I can understand it.  I have been an artist and have drawn and painted since I was very young.  I still have some of my paintings from when I was 10 years old.  But, as an artist, you have a concept in your head, an idea, a thought of what you want your blank canvas to become before you conceive it.  I think of God as an amazing artist.  He visualized me and knew everything about me before He even created me!  He knows exactly what I have need of in every aspect of my life. 

This brings me to my next thought that I've meditated on today.  I am truly amazed by the variety of people God has placed in my life.  I am so blessed to have strong and confident women, quiet and assured women, gentle and forgiving women, just and merciful women in my life.  I could list every friend and list the attributes I admire most about them, but they know who they are.  The thing that stands out to me is that God knew my personality and what I would need long before I ever knew.  He knew that I would need these specific friends in my life.  He knows what the future holds for each of us, and that gives me so much peace.  He knows our comings and our goings, our ups and downs, ins and outs.  He is so merciful and loving that He chose the exact place and point in history to place us.  It's in knowing Jeremiah 1:5 that we can have that blessed assurance that He holds us in His hand and has everything in control for us.