I have been set apart by God for His Glory. He knew me from even as I began to form in my mothers womb. He brought me together to be who I am.
“13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” – Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)
I can see here the care at which God created me. I was not just born into this world. I was put together carefully and fully to be a child of God. I was “wonderfully made”, which in my ESV Bible as a footnote means that I was “fearfully set apart”. The commentary in my ESV Bible indicates that to mean “God setting his people apart or making a distinction between them and those who are not his people”. I was, even as I was being formed, set apart as one of God’s chosen.
In my study of the word “fear” I have referenced that fear to really be respect and adoration. When I place that in the place of the word “fearfully” here in this passage, I get that I was created and set apart, respected and adored by God. I have to admit that as I was typing that last sentence a wellspring of emotion came over me. I was adored and respected even before I was “in” this world. God, as He created and molded me, loved me.
I do not claim to be a theologian or a great man of religious knowledge, but what I do claim is to be a child of God. One that respects and adores Him as He respects and adores me back.
What are your thought on your make up? Are you aware that you were made and created to be God’s? What if you were to accept and really believe that you were fearfully set apart out of respect and adoration by God?
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