WONDERFULLY MADE

When I was a child, someone close to me thought they could help me to do better at school by always asking me, “Why are you so stupid?” I didn’t know how much this had affected me until later on, I heard someone behind me say, “Stupid!” At the word, I quickly turned around thinking he was talking to me.

Knowing Jesus Christ as my Saviour helped me to realise that because God created me in His image (GENESIS 1:27), I’m not stupid but am “fearfully and wonderfully made” (PSALM 139:14). God says that all He has made is “very good” (GENESIS 1:31), and the Psalms remind us that we are “skilfully wrought”m(PSALM 139:15, NKJV).

The psalmist David talks about how God knows each one of us personally: “You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways” (VV.1-3).

Not only are we wonderfully made but because of Jesus’ death on the cross, we can also have a right relationship with God. “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come . . . All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ” (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-18).

What I’m thankful for . . .

Thank You, God, that You made me just as I am, in Your image. No matter what anyone else says, You say You love me just as I am.

EACH PERSON IS UNIQUELY AND PERSONALLY
MADE BY GOD.

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