Wondrously Made

   “I praise you, for I am wondrously made.  Wonderful are your works.” (Ps 139: 14)

   Why do we have such a hard time believing what the psalmist is telling us.  It seems we can easily see our faults and shortcomings but have a difficult time recognizing the beauty within each of us.

   God does not make mistakes.  He made us as we are and there is a purpose to His plan.  We may not fully understand why we are as we are but we were created by God and everything He made is good.  Whether we realize it or not, we are good simply because we are God’s creation.  We can either acknowledge the goodness within and share it as God would have or we can deny it and deny His plan for our life.

   There is very little we can do change our outward identity such as our looks, our background and other such things.  But we can change what we are deep inside.  If we accept ourselves as God created us we can fill ourselves with the love and beauty that God intends for us.  When we fail to see God within us we deny His love for us.

   We need to know that we are created by God and wondrously made.  Though we may not understand why we were made as we are we can still accept that God has a purpose for us just as He created us.  Until we can see God and His goodness within ourselves we will have difficulty seeing the goodness in others.  God has called us His children; He has taken us as part of His family.  We will never truly see God in others unless we see Him within us first.

   There is good within us.  God put it there when He created us.  He knew us before we were ever formed in our mother’s womb and He has made us good.  Just as a healthy tree produces good fruit we can produce good fruit in our lives and the lives of others.  We just have to realize that we truly are wondrously made by a loving and merciful God.

   “And God saw everything he had made, and behold, it was very good.” (Gen 1:31)