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Yep. You're Awesome!
From Psalm 139:1-6; 13-18: O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end —I am still with you.
There are certain times of the day that you look into the mirror. Admit it. It may be early in the morning. It may be right after lunch. But whenever it is you tend to make an evaluation of yourself. You judge yourself as either be wonderful, or something less than wonderful. This devotional will be made to glorify God not to make you conceited or arrogant. But, as you read or reread this psalm, you got the impression David had reached a point where he knew he mattered to God. It was not because he was chosen by God to be king of his people, though that wouldn't hurt you, would it? And it was not because he had killed the giant, but that would look good on your resume, wouldn't it? And it was not because he had killed several bears and lions while still a boy, but that would boost your ego, too, right? It was because David knew God. God cares and loves all of creation, people included. David knew that God knew everything about us. I had to laugh at one of the things I read online to the effect: Does Facebook know more about your than your mother? And sadly, that is a yes for those who are devoted to posting and reading Facebook. But guess what? God knows you better than Facebook and better than either one of your parents.
The knowledge that God knows and cares for us should help us reach the understanding that David reached. David said, "For it was You who formed my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Ahh! I've shared with you before about a wonderful doctor that Nellie and I had for a very brief time in our lives. He was a fairly new convert and would weep as he would view a sonogram of the human heart; "How can anybody say there is no God when you look at the marvelous working of this body??" For he had once said there was no God and then God's Word spoke to his heart and he began to see things with a different perspective. So should you. We should join David's song, "Wonderful are your works."
PRAYER: Thank You, awesome God, for the joy and peace of David and his/Your words for us this day. May I truly look beyond my human eyes and see myself for who You made me to be; a masterpiece of Your works. May my life affirm and help others affirm, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made! Amen!
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
