I AM WHO GOD SAYS I AM

 

To be honest, this third Statement Pledge of Faith is quite challenging for me. In Psalm 139:14, David said: “I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, your works are wonderful I know that full well" (Psalm 139:14). What does that mean?

The context of this verse is the incredible nature of our physical bodies. The human body is the most complex and unique organism in the world, and that complexity and uniqueness speaks volumes about the mind of its Creator. Every aspect of the body, down to the tiniest microscopic cell, reveals that it is fearfully and wonderfully made. This fact that God created me in such a way so complex is just awesome.

And then there is that poem from my elementary school days that goes like this:

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

Earlier I said that I believe everything God says. But why is it so hard for me to believe that I am fearfully and wonderfully made?

I must move on. I must not let the sad experiences I went through get the better of me. They belong to the past, and I must not dwell on them. I must forget those things that are behind, and reach forth to those things that are before, just like what Paul said in Philippians 3:13. I just have to exert more effort to let go of the past and instead meditate on what God had said about me – that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and that He has good plans for me (Jeremiah 29:11), and believe it with all my heart.

I am now thinking that one of the reasons that I am still here on earth is that God is not done with me yet. I am still a work in progress. I am not yet in that point where I can say I have fulfilled God’s purpose for me. I am not yet what God wants me to be.

Dear God, please help me to see myself in the light of what you want me to be. Help me, O Lord in my weaknesses.