Your hands have made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.--Psalm 119:73
Dear Suzanne, Rebecca, Anna and Mikayla,
His hands have made me...His hands have shaped me! As it says in Psalm 139, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My Lord, my God and Father, is acquainted with all my ways. He knows what I am going to say before I say it. He hedges me behind and before. His presence is inescapable. His right hand upholds me and even when I think the darkness is going to fall on me... even the night is light about me. He planned my days when as yet there were none of them. All of them are written in His book. His thoughts toward me are precious and cannot be counted....more in number the Psalmist says than the sand. My God knows all about me...my thoughts, my anxieties, the way that I take...and it is HE that leads me in the way that is everlasting.
I am an open book to Him and He LOVES what He sees! Why would I not submit to Him completely and be completely enveloped in His love. God is omniscience and omnipresence...that is such a comfort! When each of your were babies I can remember just watching as you played...not wanting to miss a precious moment of it.
I love thinking that our God is like that! Life is made up of thousands of moments...each one our Lord has planned for us. Don't miss any of what He has planned for you by going your own way...let Him lead.
I am created by God! He has a purpose for me...for my life. The opposing view renders life meaningless and pointless. It says that I am the result of a billion accidents, over billions of years. This is what many of us are teaching our children or allowing our public school system to teach them. They then have to spend millions of dollars trying to counter that teaching with self-esteem courses. Such evil we teach our little ones. We are created in His image. We are made in the similitude of our Creator. Genesis says "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness." This defines man unique relationship to God. Colossians 3:10 says this:
"and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,"
It is God's plan that believers become progressively more like Jesus Christ, the One who made them. He predestined us to be conformed to the image of His Son.1 Corinthians 15:49 says
"as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man."
1 John 3:2 says, "Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."
Finally 2nd Corinthians 3:18 says this: But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
We are who He, our Creator, says we are and when we awake in His presence we shall be like Him!
Love
Mom
