Monday, October 11, 2010
Psalm 139:13-14 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.
THE ALMIGHTY GOD IS ... MY CREATOR!
How many people have lived on earth since God created man in His image on the 6th day of creation? Would it be billions or even trillions? I'm sure someone has made an educated guess, but that's the best it would be -- a guess! I feel pretty small, insignificant, and unimportant thinking of the Almighty God who made uncountable planets, stars, and whole galaxies simply by speaking them into existence. Not to mention the billions if not trillions of other humans who have also lived.
But the psalmist above tells me a different truth about myself. This Almighty God is specifically MY Creator! His Word speaks of Him carefully taking the time to form my frame and knit me together in my mother's womb. I wasn't just some trillionth human off God's assembly line. I am fearfully and wonderfully made -- by the LORD! Even after being conceived in sin and living in a fallen world, my body amazingly grows by the Lord's powerful, yet gentle hand. He has designed the body to fight off sicknesses and diseases. He has created it with such a perfectly complex design that almost all of its functions are done without me even thinking about them.
The Almighty God -- MY Creator, has also hand selected all my own personal characteristics, abilities, and talents, my sense of humor and emotions, and everything about me down to the very number of hairs on my head. Why? What purpose does God have in store for me, His special creation? Ephesians 2:10 says, "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." There it is. I was created for the purpose of glorifying MY Creator and MY God! And why wouldn't I want to? Not only did He create my body, He created the faith and trust in Christ Jesus my Savior in my heart and soul, "my inmost being." So today, I again rejoice in these "wonderful works" of the Almighty God, THE Creator -- of my life, and my life in Jesus Christ.
