Fearfully and Wonderfully (Not Frightfully & Weirdly) Made

“13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were written all

The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.”

Psalm 139:13-16

Fearfully and wonderfully made… these are probably two of the hardest words in the whole Bible for me to believe about myself.  The First Book of Renee reads differently, it says frightfully and weirdly made. 

But as we walk through these verses we’ve heard a million times, lets actually take a moment to let them sink in…

“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.”

Really?  Even that thing that made me weirdly short, or tall, or fat, or thin, or plain? 

Yep.

“I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;  Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows that full well”

We were made both fragile (fearfully) and amazingly resilient and complex (wonderfully).  Then we are reminded, just in case we forgot, that the Lord’s works are wonderful.  Everything He does is good, including how he made you.  Even the complexity in a single human cell is enough to merit praising God for his creativity.

“My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;”

Even the circumstances of our birth, whether they be common, miraculous, or traumatic, even then God knew us and was knitting together chromosomes to make you exactly the person you were meant to be.

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were written all the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.”

Even the experiences we’ve had and the moments that defined us, even the days that have yet to define us, the Lord already knew about them before we took that first gasp of breath.

So who are you going to believe? Yourself and your anxious, self-conscious thoughts, or the holy, inspired Word of God? 

Take a moment right now to meditate on these verses and let God's Word soak into all those cracks in you heart that insecurity is keeping wedged open.

And the next time that self-loathing thoughts invade, let’s remember that God formed us the way we are ON PURPOSE and He’s pretty convinced that He did a good job.  

-Renee Moreland