Psalm 139:13–14
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! (NLT)

Right now, you carry around a three-pound mass of wrinkly material in your head that controls everything you do. From regulating every blink, breath, and heartbeat to enabling you to think, create, feel emotions, and read this devotional—this remarkable command center is your brain. 

It’s a structure so amazing that one scientist summed it up succinctly: "Sitting on your shoulders is the most complex object in the known universe."

Believe it or not, the activity in that complex object never stops. Your brain contains about 100 billion microscopic cells called neurons—so many it would take you over 3,000 years to count them all. Whenever you laugh, think, see, or move, it’s because tiny chemical and electrical signals are racing between those neurons along billions of tiny neuron highways. 

As cool and amazing and unbelievable as that is, it begs an interesting question: What about the Brain that created our brain? Good design always points to a Designer.

Psalm 139:13-18 is full of creative words: shaped, knit together, made, woven together. The point? God created us—we didn’t create us. But it’s also full of personal words: me, my, I. This psalm isn’t merely celebrating God’s knowledge of all things—it is much more personal. These may be fundamentals of our theology, but they make all the difference.

He knows what I don’t like about myself. He knows why I crave others’ approval, and why it’s hard for me to trust. He knows the recurring questions that I’d never voice out loud. He knows my joys and my fears, my public life and my private life, even what I will say before I say it. 

Therefore, I don’t need to regret that I am not someone else—that I didn't have different parents or a different upbringing, however flawed it seems to me. I can trust that God has cared for me each day of my life. “How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!” (v. 17).

So what does that emphasize about the kind of relationship God wants to have with you? Does He just want you to behave and stop bothering Him? Does He want to shame you every time you mess up? Or, perhaps, does He want to walk through each day of your life in an intimate relationship with you?

Tuesday’s Reflection

Re-read Psalm 139, inserting yourself into the text. These truths aren’t just for David—they are true of you, too. How does it change your perspective knowing God’s countless thoughts about you and good intentions for you?