Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.
Psalm 139:13–16 MSG
Key Verse – Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out; you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
– Reflection:
Believing We Were Made
Scripture says we’ve been fearfully and wonderfully made, but the enemy doesn’t want us to see ourselves that way. He puts up distorted mirrors to change our self-image. When we look in the distorted mirror, even though we’ve been forgiven and redeemed, all we see are our mistakes, failures, and times that we didn’t measure up. The person looking back at us in the distorted mirror is guilty and unworthy. That’s not who we are.
Where do we go from here?
If life has treated you unfairly, we’ll see ourselves in that distorted mirror as a victim, defeated, with nothing good in our future. But the truth is that God has beauty for those ashes. What was meant for harm, He’s turning to your advantage. What’s the problem? You’re looking in the wrong mirror. As long as we’re letting that distorted image define who we are, it will keep us from rising higher. Get rid of that mirror and go to God’s Word. Let Him define your image. If we see ourselves the way God sees us, it will begin to heal a damaged self-image.
Our Prayer for Today
Father, thank You that we are fearfully and wonderfully made in Your image. Thank You for not letting us know that we are not any of the negatives that the enemy tries to use to distort the image of who we are. We believe nothing can hold us back from becoming all You created us to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.