Step out

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (Psalm 139:13-14)

I have frequently perused this passage in the Psalms, but today my focus was on the extreme gratitude our psalmist acknowledging his Creator's work. All the delicate, inner workings of one's body - including our mind, will, emotions, and spirit - formed by God himself. All perfectly functioning together, in the complexity of all those 'moving parts', one supporting the other. His workmanship is indeed marvelous, but do we really believe that? I have heard way too many complaints from others, and I have spoken more than a few myself over the years, about something we 'don't exactly like' about ourselves. Yet, if we are to be truthful with ourselves, we don't always see what God sees. Those unique features we may complain about from time to time are really just his craftmanship on display. If he made us each with the same nose, toes, and hands, would we be pleased? Not likely, because we'd think we were all too much alike!

We are created by his hands as 'wonderfully complex' individuals because each of us serves a different purpose. Finding that purpose is what is likely giving us our issues with how we were created! We form opinions about how we think we should be, then get all wigged-out when we don't exactly 'match' the image we have of what we should be. The more we focus on what we see rather than on what we don't see, the more we will become discouraged by what it is we see. We see the 'inadequacies' in our lives, while God sees his extreme abilities that could be operational through our lives if we'd just settle into his plans for us. God's workmanship was not haphazard when he created each of us - it was purposeful, with great intention, fully equipping each of us with exactly what it is we would need to fulfill that plan. We just need to listen to his plan and then step out in it. Just sayin!