Praying For Your Children

I am nineteen years old and I am praying for my children.

I actually do not currently have kids, in reality, I don't even have a boyfriend.

"So why are you praying for things you don't have and people who don't exist yet?"

Because God doesn't work according to the limitations of how our timeline works. He is living in the future, he is living in the past and he is living in the present simultaneously. He has already seen my life unfold, he's already seen my children's lives unfold, and their children's lives unfold. In Psalm 139:13-16 it reads, "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."

The more and more I think about it, the more convinced I am that God is the one who is writing Doctor Who, simply because the entire timeline of that show is such a confusing entanglement that only God could understand. But seriously, compared to how God works, the timeline in that television show is merely child's play to the way God's hand moves throughout the ribbons of the universe.

The bible says our God is "omnipresent", meaning : he is present everywhere at the same time. Even the example sentence provided by the dictionary app says, "the omnipresent God". The universe knows that the spirit of it's creator is hovering over it at all times, in Genesis 1:2 it says, "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters"

Our God is not delayed by something as simple as time, he doesn't have to play by those rules, and that is why I pray for my children. In God's timeline they already exist, they are already changing the world, and travelling across the nations to tell others about Jesus Christ. In God's timeline they are already "fearfully and wonderfully made and he thinks many precious thoughts towards them." In God's timeline he has already made their mouths like a sharpened sword, he has already made them into sharpened arrows and concealed them in his quiver (Isaiah 49).

All in all I hope that this helps you broaden your horizons of the complexity and enormity of God and I hope you challenge yourself to put this into practice and praise God through prayer and thanksgiving for what he has in store for your life. Our God is massive and we need to take him out of the box that we try and confine him to.