Psalm 139:13-16
“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.”
In this month of Thanksgiving, our focus has been on thanking God for who He is, His attributes, and for His Creation, and today we thank God as the One who created life. Today, and every day, I give thanks to God, the Grand Designer, who created me.
For years I did not fully appreciate how God had created me, but in my thirties, I was finally able to count as blessings all of my less-than-perfect physical attributes, and to even thank the Lord for the way I was fearfully and wonderfully made. The Grand Designer chose my eye, hair, and skin color; He chose my gender, size, and frame. From the inside out He knitted me together to be the exact human being He desired me to be—all for His purposes—created and chosen to be His. My imperfections were created by a perfect God. No matter the many flaws, inside and out, how can I not thank my heavenly Father for the blessing of creating me the way He ordained?
Each precious life, as an “unformed substance,” is seen by a holy God, and every day is ordained for them, with a specific plan and purpose for each little life. He bestows His blessing on every created life before they are even born! There may be some who are uncertain and even fearful about bringing a child into today’s world. God’s blessed plan hasn’t changed through the ages…each human being is created by God’s will, His magnificent purpose, divine design, and glorious grace! Let us thank Him for creating us for His pleasure and purpose and make the commitment to live for His glory!
Dear heavenly Father, we praise You that You are the Grand Designer, that each one of us is fearfully and wonderfully made by You for Your specific purposes. Forgive us, Lord, when we question Your design and complain about the things we don’t like. More importantly, dear God, forgive us, we pray, for thinking and even acting upon the assumption that each human life is not precious to You, that we have the choice to destroy Your creation. How grieved you must be, O Father. Have mercy on us, we beg. In the Holy name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
