God’s unique design. . . you!
How has God made you?
If you are looking for an interesting reading check out Psalm 139. When I was doing my first internship at a youth ministry we memorized this Psalm together. It has stuck with me all those many years. When I was in college I would sometimes say it to myself as I walked through the campus to my different classes. I probably looked like a nut.
In those verses you will find a God who is not up in the heavens far away, but one who is intricately involved in the putting together of life and the world. To be honest, this is an almost impossible concept for me to understand. As I drive on the freeway sometimes I contemplate that every single person was uniquely and wonderfully made by the God of the universe. No matter their age, color, sex or personality. God made each of us.
In life when I am facing a hard time, especially when I feel like I am not measuring up to the next person I come back to this powerful Psalm. Can you imagine that the God of the universe looked at me and formed me before I was born to be uniquely me? He made me to look like me (and my parents) to have my personality and my gifts? He also does care about me and my life and often that is enough to get me through life’s challenges and struggles.
In that same psalm it says that God has ordained all of our days before one of them came to be. I have friends who call this God’s “original design” and that each of us has a unique design by God to make His character uniquely shine through us. Of course we all have similarities that bind us together under the label of human. We can uniquely think, uniquely love, uniquely make a difference in the world that nothing else in all creation can do. But, within that uniqueness of being human we each have a uniqueness of being us. God can and does use each of us to make a difference for good in the world. And He calls each of us to believe it and live in it every day!
Today take a brief moment to read this Psalm and just think for a moment about what it is saying.
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