Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

 

Have you ever wanted to be like someone else?  Maybe it would be nice to have their job, their money, or their talents.  Maybe they don't have any health issues or it seems that they just don't struggle with life as much as others do.  A couple of my family members are Type 1 Diabetics and rely on insulin pumps with constant maintenance, just to survive.  Several friends and family members have other serious health conditions, while some rarely even have to go to the doctor. Some people can pick up any musical instrument and play it with very little effort, while I struggle to keep rhythm. Others can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound and it seems if I even look at something sweet my pants immediately get tighter.  Why is life like that?  Why can't we all have it easy?  

The truth is... More than likely, the people we desire to be like have their own struggles that we may know nothing about.  The old saying, Looks can be deceiving, comes to mind.  What we may see as the perfect life on the surface, could be far less appealing if we knew all of the details.

There are many questions about life that we may never understand. The one thing we can know for sure is that none of it takes God by surprise.  He knows everything about us because He created us and He made us all differently.  Some will be more talented in certain areas and should use those talents to serve Him.  Some will struggle in certain areas and should use those struggles to help others that may face the same challenges.  

Psalm 139:14 refers to praising God because we are fearfully and wonderfully made. That means that we must do the best with whatever God gives us to praise and glorify Him, because we were created for that purpose.  This includes our talents, our abilities, our finances, our all...  

John Wesley's most famous quote is, "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."  When I read that, it makes me think of two things:  1) That we are never given a retirement age of being a Christian.  We must keep on keeping on until we can no longer.  2)  That we are told in Colossians 3 that everything we do must be done with all of our heart as we are working for the Lord.  

If we can just remember that we were created for a purpose and strive to fulfill that purpose, it will be easier to focus more on what we do have and what we can do than on what we don't or what we can't. 

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... -Psalm 139:14

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.  -Colossians 3:23

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