Wonderfully Made

Today during my morning reading, I read in Psalm139.  The entire chapter is amazing, but here are a few excerpts:

1 O Lord, you have searched me
and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O Lord.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

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

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

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

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

When you first read verses 1-4 did you make you say “uh oh”?  God knows our every thought before we think it, and our every word before we speak it.  Sometimes I wish He would stop me from speaking since He already knows I’m gonna say something stupid.

However, the further I read into this chapter of Psalm, the more comforted I felt by God’s knowledge of and love for me.  Verse 13 says “For you created my inmost being” and 14 goes on to say “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;”.  Today, those two verses alone are motivating to me to act more intentionally on something I’ve been half-heartedly working on for a while.  If God created every fiber of my being, and I am wonderfully made, why do I try so hard to mess it up?  I do not take care of my body like I should, and those two verses are quite convicting.  Some days it’s hard to believe that I am wonderfully made when I look in the mirror or on days that I am in pain, but I think this goes far beyond the physical as well.  Yeah, obviously this makes me want to take care better care of my body, but I am wonderfully made on the inside too.  Do you know anyone who suffers from low self-esteem or insecurity?  Share this verse with them today, and let them know that God  “knit them together in [their] mother’s wound.”  That person is perfectly as God designed them, fearfully and wonderfully made.  It might just give them a new outlook that begins some repairs on their heart that only God can make.

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