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PROGRAM D-7119
Are you grateful for God’s creativity in you? If not, you should be. David writes in Psalm 139: I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful.
You are wonderful because you are a work of God, and all God’s works are wonderful. God fashioned you in your mother’s womb, and he knew you before you were born; your days were planned for you before any of them ever were. We can be secure and content in who we are, because God’s hands made and formed us, and God doesn’t make mistakes.
There is wonderful freedom in accepting who we are. Freedom from having to live up to other’s expectations—or even our own. Freedom from having to be like others or compete with others. Freedom from the need to prove to the world that we are someone special, because we already know we’re someone special to God. It really takes the monkey off our backs!
When you are not happy with who you are, you inflict great suffering on yourself. It causes you to be envious of others, to resent the success of others, to fight to get ahead of others, to be dependent on the approval of others. All kinds of problems arise when you cannot accept and appreciate who you are.
Have you come to that place yet where you can truly say, “I like the way God has created me”? Oh, I hope so. It is not being proud to appreciate God’s handiwork in you. Rather it brings glory to God, just as when you appreciate a work of art you bring honor to the artist.
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