God Created You

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.(Ps 139:14)

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God created you! You are not a mistake, or an accident, or just a random collections of molecules that have formed into a body. You are not just a creation; you are a unique, fearfully and wonderfully made creation. God created you for this day, and chose the family and work situations that you find yourself in today before you were formed. God gave you your talents and skills to do something that nobody else can do. Everything you do, small or big, was part of God’s plan for you before you were created.

God knew beforehand all of the joys in your life right now. God knows about all of your struggles and challenges, too. What’s happening today in your life, what happened at work in the past weeks and months, and will happen tomorrow at work is no surprise to God – it is already written down in God’s book. God has been with you in each of these circumstances, and he will be with you in whatever happens next. 

God knows all about the people you interact with, those who love the Lord, and those who do not acknowledge God or who actively oppose God. Therefore, you don’t need to have anxious thoughts, take matters in your own hands, or have offensive ways in your life. Leave the people and the circumstances of your life in God’s hands. Acknowledge that God is your loving Creator and ask him to search you and know your heart and see if there is any offensive way in you, so that no sin comes between you and God.

Prayer

Father, we praise you because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. We rejoice in your workmanship. Father, we thank you for the talents and abilities and strengths and weaknesses that you have blessed us with. Your thoughts toward us right now are very precious to us. As we start to think about them, we are overwhelmed. 

Forgive us, Lord, for the times when our thoughts have not been pure, when we have not been filled with grace toward our co-workers. Lord, we lay our anxieties at the foot of your cross, and trust you in your infinite wisdom to deal with these situations. Search us and see if there is any offensive way in us, so that no sin comes between us. Amen

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Psalm 139:13-24 NIV 

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.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

 How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—

 when I awake, I am still with you.

If only you, God, would slay the wicked!

 Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

They speak of you with evil intent;

 your adversaries misuse your name.

Do I not hate those who hate you,Lord,

 and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?

I have nothing but hatred for them;

 I count them my enemies.

Search me, God, and know my heart;

  test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

 and lead me in the way everlasting.