When you look at the human body and the way our bones, muscles and tendons work together with our joints to give us movement. The way our veins pump blood to our extremities after somehow filling up on oxygen from our lungs. Contemplate just one of our senses. Or try to understand how the brain works. The fact that any of the millions of things going on in your body that have to be just right or they don't work proves your body is incredible.
But you might not feel the same way about that.
I have a son with special needs. I have never had a conversation with him. He can't tell his mother or me if he has a headache or needs a splinter removed. When he was younger he was incredibly violent and it would take all my strength (and there's plenty) to hold him down so he didn't hurt my wife or his siblings.
Sometimes it's difficult to agree with David when he said, "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" (Psalm 139:13-14 NIV).
If you were born with something missing or something extra, you know the pain that comes with being physically or mentally different. The idea that God "made" you (or someone you love) imperfectly on purpose is difficult to swallow.
But you might not feel the same way about that.
I have a son with special needs. I have never had a conversation with him. He can't tell his mother or me if he has a headache or needs a splinter removed. When he was younger he was incredibly violent and it would take all my strength (and there's plenty) to hold him down so he didn't hurt my wife or his siblings.
Sometimes it's difficult to agree with David when he said, "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" (Psalm 139:13-14 NIV).
If you were born with something missing or something extra, you know the pain that comes with being physically or mentally different. The idea that God "made" you (or someone you love) imperfectly on purpose is difficult to swallow.
But what if David wasn't talking about our physical bodies. What if he was talking about the miracle that happens when what is eternal is knit together with what it temporal? Paul calls our physical bodies tents and says that when our "tent" is destroyed we have an eternal house not built by human hands (2 Cor 5:1). Our bodies were not meant to last, but we were.
No matter what shape or size or challenge you may have God loves you - not your strength, but your soul. Whatever you think of yourself when you look in a mirror the fact that a tiny cell could even have had the chance to become YOU is amazing and defies the odds. That you are here on this planet at all is miraculous and it has nothing to do with your physical form.
God put your physical form and your soul together with precision. He has a plan for your life not based on your abilities but on your attitude. Your parents may have brought together the raw materials but God knit the eternal together with the temporal with precision.
Everyone struggles with something about their physical appearance or mental abilities, everyone. But your life is LOTS more than your looks. You were put together with precision.
I'd love to hear what you think about how we were knit together. Comment below.
No matter what shape or size or challenge you may have God loves you - not your strength, but your soul. Whatever you think of yourself when you look in a mirror the fact that a tiny cell could even have had the chance to become YOU is amazing and defies the odds. That you are here on this planet at all is miraculous and it has nothing to do with your physical form.
God put your physical form and your soul together with precision. He has a plan for your life not based on your abilities but on your attitude. Your parents may have brought together the raw materials but God knit the eternal together with the temporal with precision.
Everyone struggles with something about their physical appearance or mental abilities, everyone. But your life is LOTS more than your looks. You were put together with precision.
I'd love to hear what you think about how we were knit together. Comment below.
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