Our amazing self

Our bodies are like a spider web; it is at the same time fragile and yet strong. God created us with bones that carry our muscles; a marvelous organ, our skin, covers veins, flesh and then us. The skin stretches and shrinks, mends, get’s “goose bumps” when we are cold or scared or hear something creepy. Our eyes are a delicate camera that can see everything in living color and then transmits it to the part of us that drives everything we do, our brain. To see the brain is to see just gray matter, yet contained in it is instructions for every single thing we do. It is able to learn, to create, makes us sense all the emotions that we feel, tells us when and how to move, contains everything we have ever done and there are people who can actually recall every detail of their entire life, amazing. We are body, soul, and spirit, the body moves and carries us but without the spirit we wouldn’t have life and the soul is where all our earthly emotions dwell. To read the Psalms is to see the Psalmist King’s every emotion as he goes from highest mountain peaks of praise to the lowest depths of hell and then back again. Psalms 139:13-16 “Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit-by-bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.” A man and woman have sex and decide to have a baby or maybe they had unprotected sex and made a baby. That baby lives when the sperm penetrates the egg, because a child is formed… as the scripture says, “we are curiously made”, what a wonder we all are. Why are you here? Because there is a work that only you can do that has to be done by only you. As fingerprints are particular to one person and none matches for anyone else, so are we. Knowing that God sees a sparrow when it falls you know that He watches over you and knows you by your name. Just because you feel lost, dejected, depressed, left out, little, fat, ugly, or anything else negative it doesn’t define who you are. Let me tell you exactly who you are, you are a child of the King, a creation of the Most High God and don’t let the devil of this world tell you any different. You have the hug or the kiss, the smile or the encouraging word that is particularly important to someone and no one can take your place. Psalm 8 says, “I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?” Why? Because He loves us every one! Take a look in the mirror and see the miracle of creation live and in color and thank Him for the life you have. Give Him honor with every breath and know that your soul will live forever, once you have been born you never, ever die, aren’t you amazed? 

Oh Father, my soul will rest peacefully with you, forgive me of the sin of neglecting this wonderful gift you have given me, my imperfect yet perfect body. Aren’t you amazed? I am!