I like watching and reading about creative people--particularly designers, artists and builders. It's fascinating to watch shows where a creative person takes nothing and makes it into something pretty spectacular--whether it's a canvas, some fabric or a run-down piece of property.
After watching an hour or 30 minutes of a TV show featuring such creativity, I often have a moment when I'm just amazed at what's been created in front of my eyes. This morning I was watching a show where a guy designed a chandelier for a basketball fundraiser...out of hula hoops. Amazing!
And if we can admire a well-designed room, dress, or building--why is it that many people struggle to admire their well-designed selves? Or the God-built wonders in other people?
I love this portion of today's passage where David expresses his wonder at God's human creation:
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!
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.
Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful!
God, I'll never comprehend them!
I couldn't even begin to count them—
any more than I could count the sand of the sea.
Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
It's really sad to think that we often believe and say belittling things like, "I'm ugly" or "I'm stupid" or "I don't measure up" about ourselves or our fellow human beings. The next time you think or hear such comments, take a moment and realize, "Hey! That's a God design I'm talking about!" God is a creative genius--and the creative genius who made you just the way you are.
Tomorrow: Psalm 140-145
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