Songs of Israel: Psalms 139:13-18

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

So often in church we are told about our identity as sinners.
But sin is an affliction, not an identity.

If sin had fallen on a worthless creature would the God of all the heavens pursue our company every moment of our lives.

Who we are before anything else is God's most beautiful and beloved creation. Every moment since before we could breathe, before we could utter a word, God has watched us and taken joy in us.

His greatest desire that we would soon come to him with all the love of a child into the arms of his father.

Every morning when you open your eyes
God rejoices that the one he loves can again share in his beauty.

I can't possibly hope to say it truer than David
"When I awake,
I am still with you."