Made with Care

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 202, Made with Care.

"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well." Psalm 139:14.

Before reaching this verse, David spends a good stretch describing something remarkable: that God examined him completely, knew every thought before he thought it, formed every part of his body in the secret place of his mother's womb. And only after all of that — after feeling the weight of being so deeply known — does he burst into praise: "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

Notice that David's praise has a very specific cause. He's not just saying "God is good" in some generic way. He's looking at himself — his own body, his own existence — and seeing the Creator's signature there. Wonder at the work turns into worship of the One who made it.

And look at these two words he chooses: fearfully and wonderfully. Together they carry both weight and beauty. Fearfully, because there is something almost awe-inducing in the sheer complexity of how you were formed — every cell, every function, every detail of your body working in an orchestra no human engineer could design. And wonderfully, because all of that is, at the same time, beautiful. You are not a cosmic accident. You are not a mass-produced repeat. You are the careful, intentional work of a God who is both engineer and artist.

Today's science, when it maps DNA, when it describes the intricate engineering of the human body, is only confirming in a lab what David was already singing thousands of years ago without a microscope. "Wonderful are your works." That's not pious opinion — it's precise observation.

And then comes the phrase that closes the verse: "my soul knows it very well." Not a doubt. Not a fleeting feeling that comes and goes with the day's mood. It is certainty of the soul. David knew this on good days and bad days, because the truth didn't depend on how he felt — it depended on who God is and what God did.

And I need to ask you: have you ever said this about yourself? Not about someone else — about you. Because it's easy to admire God's creation in another person and doubt it in yourself. It's easy to look in the mirror and see only the flaws, the comparisons, the criticisms you've absorbed over the years. But Psalm 139 leaves no room for that. You were fearfully and wonderfully made — not despite your particular quirks, but including them.

So today, I want to challenge you to do something simple but potentially deeply moving: look in the mirror and say out loud — "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Say it slowly. Let that truth sink deeper than any voice that has ever tried to convince you otherwise.

You are God's work. And God's work is wonderful.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.