"For it was you who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:13
God never changes, He tells us this through his prophet Malachi (3:6). We can see this vital truth being represented to us here in Psalm 139 as we compare it to Genesis 2:7 when God formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him. All of creation was spoken into existence by a meticulously caring God, forming every detail; but when God creates man He takes care to create him in His own image and breaths His own breath into him. In Genesis we see God taking care, giving attention to detail, when He created the first man. In Psalm, we are told that this same care is still being taken by God on an individual level. God lovingly creates each individual.
Both internally and externally, you are made according to the design of the loving, only wise God. Your "inward parts", how you process thoughts and emotions, the things that just make you tick or hobbies you seem inexplicably drawn to - that's God! He has a purpose for it, He has designed you, custom, for joy and accomplishments that He has laid out for you before you were ever born. "...all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began." (Ps. 139:16) He didn't just find a purpose for you to belong after discovering you were born into the world. He didn't simply adjust events and plans after observing your personality or interests. He created the purpose for you and you for the purpose. Literally a match made in heaven. He takes as much care with the physical details also. Your height, eye color, voice, every last detail (impossible to name them all), God has designed specifically for you.
All this care in creating you, much of which we will never fully comprehend on this present earth, was done with infinite wisdom. It was done in the most absolute perfect way that it could possibly have been done. Will you use this amazing, customized gift of life to reach for your own desires and purposes, or will you use your life to humbly declare (along with the Psalmist),
"I will praise you because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. Your works are wondrous and I know this very well."
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