"The Confident King"

"But Thou art He that took me out of the womb: Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts." (Psalms 22:9) If you have a calling upon your life, then you were called from birth! Yes, it's true; God has had a plan for your life since before you were even born, and He is the one that formed you in your mother's womb. Although we were conceived by the help of our father's seed, Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and a miracle of God creating within Mary a child without the help of a man; otherwise known as the 'virgin birth'. You would be totally amazed at the number of Christians that do not believe in the virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ; they cannot see how it could have happened, therefore they don't believe that it did; at least not the way that it is portrayed in the Bible. The Mormon church believes that God manifested in the flesh and had intercourse with Mary; thereby creating His Son by His seed; yet the Bible clearly says that Jesus was born from a virgin, and in my opinion, that should mean that she had not known a man, nor should she have had the experience of anything closely associated with knowing any man. In other words, she was a virgin! Okay; moving past that, the word "took", as in "took me out of the womb", means to draw out, or to bring forth; to burst forth, which is really something that has deep character of meaning, for it speaks of not only a child bursting forth from his mother's womb, but it speaks of a river breaking out from it's source, as would be the case when a new river is formed from a broken bank of a lake; or as a soldier rushing forth to battle, as he advances onto the battlefield with all his might against an enemy. I continually am amazed at the total disregard for the miracle behind the human life that is formed within the womb; not just the body of the child that is formed there, but the life that will come forth, and the impact that life will have upon the world, or could have, if only given the chance. The argument as to when life begins is one that has forgotten what life is meant to be, and the potential that is within each and every one of us to be used for the glory of God. The word "hope", as in "Thou didst make me hope", is a word that means confident, or to have confidence; to be secure, to feel safe or be carefree, or to cause to trust. The account in the Bible of when Jesus began to be aware of His calling was when He was twelve, but I have to wonder if He knew what His calling was much earlier than that... "And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found Him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. And when they saw Him, they were amazed: and His mother said unto Him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And He said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" (Luke 2:42-49)