YOU ARE GOD’S ARTWORK; HIS MASTERPIECE!

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. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you” (Psalms 139: 13-18).

One of the most powerful displays of God’s omnipotence happens in “secret” (Psalms 139: 15). David contemplates his own creation and development as a pre-born child. He acknowledges that God formed his organs; he reflects upon how his Maker knitted him together; how the Lord embroidered him like an ornate rug; how the Creator saw his undeveloped form. How amazing the all-powerful God is!

God is involved in every person’s life from the very beginning. By “beginning,” I mean conception. God wove you. Like a tapestry, each of us is a complex creature (Exodus 26:36). All of our parts work together; each with a different job to do and all depending on the other parts (1 Corinthians 12:14-18). God works with the skill that confounds man. We recall the first creation which began it all (Genesis 2:7: 22; 1:27). When God formed that initial human pair, He skillfully added mechanisms which would operate on the basis of natural law so that they would be able to re-create themselves. The Psalmist correctly identifies God as the Master Worker who is the source of our origin.

We are “fearfully” and “wonderfully” made. Each of us are unique in many ways, but also similar in many; each an original masterpiece of the Creator. Some are tall. Some are short. Some are wide. Some are narrow. Some have thick hair. Some have thin hair. Some have light skin.
Some have dark skin. Like snowflakes, all are unique and have been fearfully and wonderfully made by God.
Many today will pay great prices and go to great lengths to look different from how they look. Some parts of their body are too big so they will pay to have them made smaller. Some parts of their body are too small so they will pay to have them made bigger. There are creams to grow hair and there are creams to remove hair. There are hair pieces, hair plugs, hair transplants and even spray hair in a can!  There are nips and there are tucks and there are injections that tighten. Just think of the money spent on changing what God has fearfully and wonderfully made.

Please know that God has wonderfully made you in His own image and  in His own likeness. You are pleasing to His sight and He longs to spend eternity with you where He will give you a new body that will be perfect and never age. You won’t have to spend a kobo on changing or on maintaining it.
So precious (weighty) are the thoughts of God. They are vast and far beyond us (Psalms 139: 17, 18; Romans 11: 33- 36). God is intensely interested in our salvation. And because of this, He has provided redemption in His Son, Jesus (John 3:16). This was in accordance with His plan from before the beginning (Ephesians 3:11-12). When sin entered the world, God was right there, and along with announcing the consequences of sin, He also announced His plan to undo what Satan had done and remedy the situation which would have otherwise been hopeless (Genesis 3: 15).
God has not abandoned man; man has abandoned God. But some have the wisdom to recognize that it is we who need God; His love and care and fellowship before we can truly be happy. We are His offspring! (Acts 17:24-28). Some have abandoned our Father and have gone to live with another. Not many actually call Satan “Dad”, but Jesus says that is what Satan becomes to those who refuse to hear Him (John 8:43-45). If you allow the world to dictate your morality, your religion, your speech, your dress, your conduct, then welcome  to your new dad, the Devil, according to Jesus.
But we all know who our real Father is, don’t we? (Hebrews 12:9). We know from whom our spirits come; who loves us; to whom we owe our submission. We are indeed “fearfully and wonderfully made” and it is time we show our appreciation to the Father for what He has done for us, and the hope of eternal life which He offers us at so great a cost to Himself – the precious blood of His only Son, Jesus Christ.
Beloved, God has wonderfully made us to be pleasing to Him and may we always reach toward heaven in praise and adoration to our Creator. May we say as the Psalmist did – “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139: 14)
Have  a fulfilling week as you have the right view of how you were made, whose you are and for whom you were wonderfully made!

Your brother, Vicar & Archdeacon
S. Igein Isemede