Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

FEARFULLY & WONDERFULLY MADE

Ps. 139:13-14,16

I. WANTING TO CHANGE OURSELVES & WHY

1. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and didn't like what you saw? Hello! I have. It's common, especially among young people, to be self-conscious about our looks.

2. We begin to compare ourselves with other people, to notice other people’s expectations or preferences. People in Hollywood get surgery on their lips or noses or other parts, because they want to look like somebody else.

3. Who are you trying to impress? Do you not know that God created you to be different from the next person for a reason? If you succeeded in changing yourself to look (or act) like someone else, then you’re no longer unique! What have you accomplished? Absolutely nothing, except for deep regret, poor self-image, depression, etc.

II. YOU ARE GOD’S MASTERPIECE

A. GOD DOESN’T MAKE MISTAKES

God doesn’t make mistakes; He made you and I the way we are for a particular reason. God sees things we don’t see!

1. The Bible says, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” in Psalm 139:13-14,16.

2. JOKE. Some scientists are attempting human cloning; we think we’re as smart as God, but that’s an impossibility!

a. There’s a joke about a scientist who told God he was as smart as God, & that now he could make life in a test-tube. God listened very patiently and kindly to the man.

b. God said, "Very well, let’s have a life-making contest!" The scientist replied, "Okay, great!" God said, "We'll do this just like I did it back in the old days with Adam."

c. The scientist said, "Sure, no problem," and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God looked at him and said, "No, You have to get your own dirt!"

[The joke is, almost all that scientists are doing is manipulating the already complex creation which God has made. Nothing they’re doing is truly original.]

B. AMAZING THINGS ABOUT HUMANS

1. SNEEZE. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

2. SPIT. The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

3. FEET. The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones–that's 52 bones in the feet alone. A pair of feet has 250,000 sweat glands.

4. NOSE. Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.

5. SYMBIOSIS. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

6. BRAIN. In man is a 3 pound brain which has a 100 billion neurons intricately linked to each other. The total number of connections in the brain approaches 10 to the 15th power, or 1,000 million million.

7. EYE. An eye is composed of more than 2 million working parts. An eye cannot be transplanted. More than 1 million nerve fibers connect each eye to the brain. Your retina is thinner than paper, yet its tiny surface (only 1 inch square) contains 137 million light-sensitive cells. These retina cells perform up to 10 billion calculations per second in determining the nature of the image transmitted to the eye by light photons. No supercomputer on earth is capable of matching these virtually instantaneous calculations.

8. DNA. Francis Collins, the scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome, says, "When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information…you can't survey that…without a sense of awe….and…a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God's mind.”

9. You are God's masterpiece. Did you know that humans are the only creations that God breathed into the “breath of life?” He gave us living souls, and pronounced us “good!” Genesis 1:31. So when God looks at us, He doesn’t just focus on our shortcomings, but He sees our potential to do great things for Him.

C. “I AM SPECIAL”

1. I am special. In all the world there is no one like me. Since the beginning of time, there has never been another person like me. Nobody has my smile, my eyes, my nose, my hair, my hands or my voice.

2. I am special. No one can be found who has my handwriting, has my taste for food, clothing, music, or art. No one sees things just like I do. In all of time, there’s never been anyone who cries like me, and what makes me laugh or cry, will never produce identical laughter and tears from anybody else. I am the only one who has my set of abilities; no one else has my combination of talents, ideas, abilities and feelings.