Sometimes you just have to laugh. Someone once asked me what my sign is, meaning the astrological sign. Another someone talked to me about my being part of the earth and thus affected by electrical and other currents and fluxes of rhythm, both natural and man-made. And others have varying theories of what I am and why I am the way I am – and what I should be. Okay. So, whose opinion should I buy into? God’s, of course.
David wrote in Psalm 139 a phrase that always strikes me with amazement. “For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise You because I have been remarkably [fearfully] and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful.” [Ps 139:13-14 HCSB]
That psalm is probably very familiar to most of us. And I hear people use the phrase I am fearfully and wonderfully made all the time. They go on and talk about our bodies and how wonderfully formed they are. A truth we take for granted until something goes wrong in them.
That is not, however, the thought that always leaves me amazed. It is the one that follows it … “Your works are wonderful.”
I am a work of God … so are you. I am a wonderful work of God … so are you.
Too often our view of ourselves is obscured by what the world thinks we are or should be. Too often it is clouded by the accusations of the enemy of our soul. Too often it falls victim to our own insecurities and anxieties, to our life experiences, or our life failures. Yet none of that changes the fact, the truth, that we are a wonderful work of God.
We need to stop listening to the voices around us or in us and start listening to the only Voice that counts!
