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January 18
Sunday


WONDERFULLY
MADE

READ:
Psalm 139:7-16
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I will praise You, for
I am fearfully and
wonderfully made.
__Psalm 139:14
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A quote in George MacDonald's book DAVID ELGINBROD speakes to those who wonder, at times, why God has made them the way they are--and who wish they were someone else.

Lady emily muses: "I wish I were you, Margaret."

Margaret answers: "If I were you, my lady, I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about--born in God's thoughts--and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking."

MacDonald may have had psalm 139:17 in mind: "How precious... are Your thoughts to me, O God!" In this psalm, David is thinking about his conception, and vividly describes God's thoughts as he wove him together in his mother's womb, creating a unique and special individual to be the object of His love.

It's a comforting thought to know that we're not a terrible mistake, but a very special creation, "born in God's thoughts." David could stand before a mirror and say in all honesty and humility: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works" (v.14).

You are a designer original! As such, you are dear, grand, and precious to God. __David Roper
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```````````````````Of all creation's treasures rare,````````````````
````````````````Not one compares in worth with man;``````````````
`````````````````In God's own image he was made````````````````
````````````To fill a place in His great plan. __D. De Haan```````````
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You are one of a kind--
designed to glorify God as only you can.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 139:7-16************

7 Where can I go from
Your Spirit? Or where can I
flee from Your presence?

8 If I ascend into heaven,
Your are there; if I make my
bed in hell, behold, You are
there. 9 If I take the wings
of the morning, and dwell
in the uttermost parts of the
sea, 10 even there Your hand
shall lead me, and Your
right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, "Surely the
darkness shall fall on me,"
even the night shall be light
about me; 12 indeed, the
darkness shall not hide
from You, but the night
shines as the day; the
darkness and the light are
both alike to You. 13 For You
formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my
mother's womb. 14 I will
praise You, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully
made; marvelous are Your
works, and that my soul
knows very well. 15 My
frame was not hidden from
You, when I was made in
secret, and skillfully
wrought in the lowest parts
of the earth. 16 Your eyes
saw my substance, being
yet unformed. And in Your
book they all were written,
the days fashioned for me,
when as yet there were
none of them.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Shakespeare eloquently reflected on humankind: "What a piece of
work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in
form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an
angel, in apprehension how like a god!"

Because humans are made in the image of God, they are
endowed with remarkable gifts of mind and body. However, as
human beings we will always have creature status. To aspire to be a
god is the great sin of Satan (Isa. 14; Ezek 28). __Dennis Fisher