Our young people are like tender flowers that need to be watered, feed and given plenty of sunlight so they can grow into the fulness of what they are to become.13-16 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
NOTE: David reminds us that we were known by God even as we were growing inside of our mothers. In the KJV of the Bible is says, fearfully and wonderfully made. Here it says marvelously made. Because God created us he knows us inside and out. If you asked several different girls, which one of you has recieved the greatest blessing from God? What would be the answer? Would the girl with the longest hair say she has been blessed more because of the length of her hair? Or would it be the girl that is most popular, because she has the most friends? None! There would not be one girl standing that could say she was more blessed or more deserving of blessings than the next one.
QUESTION: what does it mean to be marvelously made? Or fearfully and wonderfully made? It means beautiful, excellent, stunning, fearfully – with extreme care, wonderfully – fantastical, amazing. In other words it does not matter what we look like, God says we are beautiful to him.
NOTE: David reminds us that we were known by God even as we were growing inside of our mothers. In the KJV of the Bible is says, fearfully and wonderfully made. Here it says marvelously made. Because God created us he knows us inside and out. If you asked several different girls, which one of you has recieved the greatest blessing from God? What would be the answer? Would the girl with the longest hair say she has been blessed more because of the length of her hair? Or would it be the girl that is most popular, because she has the most friends? None! There would not be one girl standing that could say she was more blessed or more deserving of blessings than the next one.
QUESTION: what does it mean to be marvelously made? Or fearfully and wonderfully made? It means beautiful, excellent, stunning, fearfully – with extreme care, wonderfully – fantastical, amazing. In other words it does not matter what we look like, God says we are beautiful to him.
Prayer: Lord thank you that you see beauty in me, even when I don't see it myself. Help me to find the beauty in myself that you have placed there. Help me to know you do not make anything "junky" and then help me so that I will not live a "junky" life, but one that shows your beauty in me.
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