You Are Awesome

Psalm 139:13-18

13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

16 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.

17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.

Life can be hard, and mean, and rough, and lousy, and all the other words you can think of.  Life is downright harsh and unforgiving.  We have this tendency to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think “oh, my gosh, my hair, my face, my skin, my jean size, my eyes…” and on and on it goes.

How often do we wake up in the morning thinking, “I am so awesome!”?  Here’s the thing.  This world doesn’t want you to ever look at yourself and see anything besides “not good enough”.  But no matter what your current belief about life or happiness or yourself is at this moment as you’re reading this, let me pull you in on something.  Even if you choose to call every single word written here as a lie, that doesn’t make it any less true.  And the truth is that you were chosen before anything around you was there.  Before God said “Let there be light” He said “let there be _____!”  That’s you.  He thought about you before He ever thought about anything else.

Look at what David wrote in the Psalm at the top.  You are fearfully and wonderfully made.  That means you were made with thought and time and detail and intention.  Verse 17 and 18 are my favorite.  How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.

He thinks about you.  ALL THE TIME!  How many thoughts does He have towards you?  If you could count them, they would outnumber the sand.  (I don’t know about you but the task of counting up all the sand sounds like a nightmare.  Let’s just agree that it’s a lot!)

And what I really want you to get out of it all is that He is thinking about you but not one of them involve disappointment, anger, wrath, or displeasure.  They are precious thoughts.  Another word for precious is valuable.  He finds value in you.  So when I tell you that you are awesome, it’s because He thinks you are awesome.

Have a great week,