"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!" Psalm 139:13-18
God has called me, even before I was ever a thought to my parents. Why do we as people struggle to be accepted by those around us, when the only thing that matters is God's love? It says it in this passage that God's thoughts about me are precious. By definition precious as an adjective means; of great value, highly esteemed or cherished, excessively refined. We all know that the process of being refined as in gold and silver takes some master skill to get it right and is a lengthy process. Who better to refine us than God our Father? Who, by the way, finds us of great value, and we are highly esteemed by him and cherished. We are excessively refined. A lot of thought and time and love was put into my creation.
I am called by God, to do what he has purposed in my life. The need is urgent to walk away from the world that doesn't have high regard for me, that doesn't find great value in me, doesn't cherish me and definitely is not spending the time to refine me.
This is what it's all about....walking away, and following the one who loves me without condition. No matter what I've done, or how many times I've done it, his love is still there, he is still interested in me. The real me, because he created that person and doesn't want to change it, he only wants to refine it.
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." John 10:27
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