Psalms 139:14-16
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
Tag: Wonderfully Made
In our society we have billions of dollars spent on improving how we look, how we feel about ourselves and/or how we can change what others see. OUR IDENTITY is a major focus of our lives. We want to change our hip size, our hair color and style, our physique, etc. We have a hard time accepting what we see in the mirror. Instead of speaking about our bodies like David does in the above psalm we say:
“I am concerned for how you made me, Lord! You normally do good work, but as I look in the mirror, this seems to be below your standards ... it is below what I see in others. My frame seems to be something I have hide from others. You must have seen something the day you made me that simply does not fit into what I see accepted in today’s society.”
David was not like his brothers. He was the runt of the pack. But, he realized that was NOT what he saw in the mirror that made him special. It was what he saw through God’s eyes that gave him his identity. We can allow the world to give us our identity. We can allow someone in our lives to define us. Or, we an allow the words of this Psalm to define us. God made us, each part, before we were even born. Before the foundation of the earth He gave us our DNA. We were designed by God. We can rejoice in that. Yes, if we have allowed God’s design to be run down because we have not taken care of what He designed, that is our responsibility to change and to work at. But, we are not to complain about how were were created. God knew exactly what He was doing. We were wonderfully made!!
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