Are You Feeling Wonderfully Made? - Your Nightly Prayer - July 11th

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Are You Feeling Wonderfully Made?
By Lynette Kittle

TONIGHT'S SCRIPTURE

“I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”—Psalm 139:14

SOMETHING TO PONDER

Are you feeling wonderfully made today? Most likely, the majority of us don’t wake up every morning feeling like we are, even though the Bible teaches that it’s exactly how God created us.

Sleep issues, health concerns, work stress, relationship woes, money problems, and more drag many of us down, causing us to feel less than wonderful by a long stretch, causing us to lose sight of how God sees us.

Rolling out of bed and looking in the mirror first thing in the morning can have that kind of overall effect on us, too, seeing the cares of the world on our faces, making some of us to want to turn around, crawl back in bed, and pull the covers over our heads.

Sadly, we live in a world that has a way of wearing us down, robbing us of joy, strength, and a hopeful outlook on ourselves and life itself, daily draining the life-giving words God has spoken about us with its worries, concerns, troubles, setbacks, and disappointments.

God’s words spoken about us, and to us, give us life, but countless words spoken about us, and to us, in our fallen world, have a way of dragging us down, especially concerning how we see and feel about ourselves, causing us to lose sight of who God created and calls us to be.

Slowly, some individuals are remaking themselves to correct and fit what the world says about them, according to its standards of what wonderfully made means. A little tuck here, a chisel there, some tightening skin here, and a round of Botox there, all aiming to achieve an unattainable, make-believe image goal that’s ever-changing with the latest body type fad.

But nothing our culture offers us to make us into its distorted image compares to God’s fashioning of us, of His fearfully and wonderfully made, as described in Psalm 139:13-16:

“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.”

Although God created us fearfully and wonderfully, His love for us hasn’t ever been based, or is it now, dependent on our form because His love began when we were still in our unformed bodies. What greater love and worth could we ever know?

YOUR NIGHTLY PRAYER

Dear Father,
Thank You for fearfully and wonderfully creating us, for secretly knitting and weaving us together in our mothers’ wombs. Help us to believe each and every day what Your word says about us, waking up each day looking in the mirror believing and receiving the love You have for us, a love that began long before our first heartbeat and breath.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen

THREE THINGS TO MEDITATE UPON

1. When you think about yourself, who you are, how do you describe yourself?

2. What do you believe about yourself? Have words spoken to you by your family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors influenced how you look at yourself?

3. Do you believe what God says about you, that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made? If not, why? Are there things that have deeply affected your view and value of yourself that don’t align up with who God says you are?

Lynette Kittle is married with four daughters. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been published by Focus on the Family, Decision, Today’s Christian Woman, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and more. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent University and serves as associate producer for Soul Check TV.

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