A More Perfect View Of You For 2022

Sermon: A More Perfect View for 2022

Scripture Lesson: Ps 139:1-17 BBE “O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord. 5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me. 6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. 7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you? 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea; 10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; 12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you. 13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body. 14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being. 17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!”

Introduction: How do see yourself? Who determines your value? Psalms 139 assures each of us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. The Basic Bible English version states that we are strangely and delicately formed by God himself. God doesn’t make mistakes; He made you and I the way we are for a particular reason. Every morning when you get out of bed, remind yourself, “you are valuable, you are important! You are handpicked by God, and God’s own special treasure. Every one of us, without a face lift, weight loss, or an extreme makeover, are created in the image of Almighty God!”

I have entitled this message, “A More Perfect View for 2022” Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid in the desert learned the omniscience of God, and exclaimed, "Thou God seest me:" She was just an overlooked maid, yet she discovered that God sees me! It will profit us if we meditate upon this solemn truth, as we embark on a new year. Psalms 139, assures us that not only the words on my tongue which have been spoken, but those in my tongue which as yet have not been sounded. The words I mean to speak he knows and even when I miss speak, He knows. Then consider our bodies. Our bodily frame is like a very skillful piece of embroidery, "curiously wrought;" its nerves, veins, and muscles are fashioned by the divine. At our first formation the wisdom of the Lord was present, working all things with benevolent design. Just as a watchmaker understands the watch he made; or a car manufacturer understands the car He has made, even so the Creator knows all visible, invisible and secret workings of our entire beings.

Every year brings it a desire to recreate ourselves. We made New Year’s Resolution, set new goals, all in an effort to recreate ourselves. Lofty goals and aspirations are admirable. Some maybe profitable and wholesome. Psalms 139 encourages us to accept and appreciate the work of our Creator God, and to celebrate His handiwork. Many frustrate with constant feeling of dissatisfaction. They want to be thinner, or heavier, or taller or shorter, lighter or darker. They seem to never be satisfied with who they are. Yet we have been fearfully and wonderfully made, without mistakes or blemishes. We are result of a perfect creator God, capable to pleasing Him, glorifying Him and blessing the world. If I need to be more, God would have made me more. I have everything I need to fulfill my God-given assignment. And so do you. This same spirit of dissatisfaction was the tool Satan used against Eve in the garden. Satan made Eve feel like she wasn’t enough and that she needed something else. Eve lived in a perfect environment, the most beautiful, the wisest, the richest, the most ideal creature ever created, yet Satan, “you are missing out on something.” That the same message he uses today. If only you had…If only you were….What you really need is…! Psalms 139 gives a more perfect view for 2022.