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We Are Fearfully And Wonderfully Made!
Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 25, 2025 (message contributor)
First in vs. 13, "LORD, You formed me." Or as David said: "You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb."
*LORD, YOU formed me. James Merritt explained that David knew we are a physical miracle created by the power of God. . . David was saying, "LORD, I know that I am not here because of Mother Nature, fate, or chance." David knew that your life is not an accident. Your life is a wonderful gift from God! (1)
-Next in vs. 14, LORD, You formed me in a fantastic way. Or as David said, "I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well." We are "fearfully made." That original word means we "should stand in awe" at the complexity of our creation. We are also "wonderfully made." That word means we are a marvelous creation of the LORD. (2)
*We can never overestimate the GREATNESS of our God! Reader's Digest told us a little about how we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
-"Your body is such an incredibly precise machine that if it is working normally, you can do the following:
+Feel on your fingertips or face a pressure that depresses your skin only 4 one hundred thousandths of an inch.
+See either a small candle flame from 30 miles away at night, or 300,000 different colors in the light.
+Smell one drop of perfume spread through a three-room apartment.
+Taste 4 hundredths of an ounce of table salt dissolved in 530 quarts of water.
+Feel the weight of a bee's wing falling on your cheek from less than half an inch away.
+Notice where a sound came from based on a 3 one hundred thousandths of a second difference in its arrival from one ear to the other. (3)
*Your body is a physical miracle that can only be explained by the unlimited power of God. -- "Lord, You formed me!"
-Then, in vs. 16, You fashioned my days: "Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them." That word "fashioned" is a picture of squeezing something into shape, like a potter at his wheel. And God is fashioning the days of our lives. (2)
*We have no idea what tomorrow brings, but the LORD certainly does. God sees around corners and over the hills, so in His care we don't have to worry. One of the best things we can say to God is, "LORD, You formed me and fashioned my days."
(1) Adapted from ChristianGlobe.com sermon "Our God Is an Awesome God" by James Merritt - Psalm 139:1-24
(2) Sources:
-BROWN-DRIVER-BRIGGS' HEBREW DEFINITIONS - Published in 1906; public domain- Downloaded to e-Sword by Rick Meyers - Copyright 2021
-STRONG'S HEBREW AND GREEK DICTIONARIES - from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D. - Published in 1890; public domain. - Downloaded to e-Sword by Rick Meyers - Copyright 2021
(3) Cited by Reader's Digest. Adapted from ChristianGlobe.com sermon "Our God Is an Awesome God" by James Merritt - Psalm 139:1-24
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