WONDERFULLY MADE

READ; Psalm 139:7-16
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I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. -Psalm 139:14
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   A quote in George Mac Donald's book David Elginbrod speaks to those who wonder, at times, why God has made them the way they are-and who wish they were someone else.
   Lady Wmily muses: "I wish I were you, Margaret."
   Margaret answers: "If I were you, my lady, I would rather be what God chosen to make me than the most glorious creature that i could  think of. For to have been thought about-born in God's thought-and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking."
    MacDonald may have had Psalm 139:17 in mind: "How precious...are Your thoughts to me, O God!" In this psalm, David is thinking about his conception, and vividly describes God's thoughts as He wove Him together in his mother's womb, creating a unique and special individual to be the object of His love.
   It's a comforting thought to know what we're not a terrible mistake, but a very special creation, "born in God's thoughts." David could stand before a mirror and say in all honestly and humility: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works" (v.14).
    You are a designer original! As such, you are dear, grand and precious to God. -David Roper

Of all creation's treasures rare,

Not one compares in worth with man;

In God's own image he was made

To fill a place in His great plan. -D. De Haan