Our great God and Savior knows
everything, is everywhere, and is all-powerful.
The LORD God knows me because
He made me, and since He made me, I am responsible
to Him for my actions. That’s
probably the biggest reason why people do not want
to accept the fact that God created man.
But whether a person acknowledges the facts
about creation or not, he or she will still have to
answer to Him personally.
The Psalmist David observed
that the LORD God “formed my inward parts; You wove
me in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13).
Our Creator not only created the first man
Adam, but He continues to create.
There is not another person on the face of this
earth with the same genes, DNA, and chromosomes.
I am a unique person, custom made by God for
a specific purpose in history. No
one else can fulfill that purpose in history; no one
else can fulfill my purpose.
God’s dealings with you and me
are not a duplicate of His dealings with anyone else
in time and space. It is unique
to me because I am unique. There
is no one else like me. A person
who wants to be something different from God’s
purpose for him is like a cancer cell. We become
like cancer cells in the body of Christ when we want
to be like someone else and not what God wants us to
be. God deals with each child
differently. We do not trust Him
when we ask that our experience duplicate someone
else’s. No one is inferior or
unspiritual because his or her experience is not
just like someone else’s.
Thank God that you are who you
are. His resources have already been revealed in
creating you. "I will give thanks
to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very
well" (Psalm 139:14). Have you
thanked God for making you just the way you are?
"My frame was not hidden from You, When I was
made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths
of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed
substance; And in Your book were all written The
days that were ordained for me, When as yet there
was not one of them " (Psalm 139:15-16).
I worship a God who knows me
and is near me. He created me for
today. There is only one me.
I am a pattern that God will never use again.
In all the time to come, there will never be
another me. I am somebody. I am a
unique creation of God.
Therefore, I must be found doing the will of God.
My responsibility is not to seek the praise
of men, but to be what God made me.
Have you considered who you are
in God’s eyes? Have you in
humility thanked Him for making you so wonderfully
complex? The Lord’s work is
marvelous.
The Psalmist catches his breath
and declares, “How precious also are your thoughts
to me, O God! How vast the sum of
them!” (v. 17).
“How weighty are your designs” (NAB).
“How immeasurable your concepts are” (R. K.
Harrison). “How hard it is to
grasp your thoughts” (Jerusalem Bible).
“How deep I find Your thoughts” (NEB).
“How precious and weighty!” (Amplified
Bible).
How odd that in our day the U.
S. government and the politically correct no longer
refer to the unborn child as a baby. The fact is no
one likes to think about killing an unborn baby so
it has been renamed a fetus or an embryo or human
tissue. God said it is His creation fearfully and
wonderfully made. It is a baby custom made by God.
The LORD said to Jeremiah,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and
before you were born I consecrated you; I have
appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jer. 1:5).
Each one of us is custom made by God.
Selah!
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006
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Wil is a graduate of William Carey University, B. A.; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Th. M.; and Azusa Pacific University, M. A. He has pastored in Panama, Ecuador and the U. S, and served for over 20 years as missionary in Ecuador and Honduras. He had a daily expository Bible teaching ministry head in over 100 countries from 1972-2005. He continues to seek opportunities to be personally involved in world missions. Wil and his wife Ann have three grown daughters. He currently serves as a Baptist pastor and teaches seminary extension courses in Ecuador.
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