Psalm 139:13 “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” This episode talks about how God made you on purpose. You are not a mistake. You are perfect just as you are. You are loved just as you are. You are enough just as you are. Music:"Adding the Sun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
God Made You On Purpose
Psalm 139:13 “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
God created everything about us. I like this verse because it reminds us that He created even our inmost being. I like the visual of God knitting me together. One stitch at a time. I am not someone who knits, but I have family and friend that do. When you are knitting something you can make it look however you want to. If you are the person doing it, you get to pick the colors, you get to pick the pattern, you even get to pick which stitch or combination of stitches you are going to use. You are the creator for whatever you are knitting.
Now, imagine that is God, knitting you together. He chose all the specifics about you. He got to choose what color hair you have, and what color eyes you have. Do you ever take time to think about this, to think about the fact that God created everything about you? I was at a personal development conference this week so that may be why it is on my mind more than usual. I love attending these conferences because it is so great to be gathered in a room with like minded people. I don’t mean that we all think the same way, or even believe the same things, but in this instance, we were all there because we knew God had a bigger plan for our lives and we wanted to figure out what that plan was.
It was an amazing weekend and I learned so much. This happened to be a women’s conference and there were so many women gathered together all wanting to improve themselves in some way or another. This is a beautiful thing. One of things that usually comes up when you have so many women gathered together is the idea of insecurities. Insecurities are something that I believe everyone has. We don’t all have them about the same things, or to the same extent but I do think we are all insecure about something. We all have that one thing, or some of us have more than one thing, that we wish we could change about ourselves. That thing that we really don’t like about ourselves. Some of these things affect our lives in a big way and some do not.
When you look at yourself and your life, what are your insecurities? What are the things about you that you don’t like that may be getting in your way of living your best life? Maybe you are struggling because you are living the life that everyone around you wants you to live, but inside you feel like it's not right for you. For instance, you have a really good job and you are making good money but in your heart, you really want to be doing something else. Maybe you have insecurities based on your appearance. This is a big one with women. We feel too tall, too short, too thin, too fat. Or we feel our hair is too long, too short, too light, too dark. It seems like no one is happy in their own skin these days.
I wonder why this is? I wonder if people throughout the ages have always felt like this, or if this is new? I don’t think it is new that people don’t like something about themselves. I am sure that has always probably been a thing. However, I wonder if it was as wide spread and common place as it is today. I am not sure if I know a single woman who is so happy with her appearance that she wouldn’t change anything if you asked. I wonder if all this unhappiness has to do with social media and marketing? Once upon a time before TV, magazines, movies, etc. you didn’t have so much access to everything. You could compare yourself to those that lived around you, and maybe those in paintings or in books. However, you didn’t have the kind of access you have today.
Today you could spend five minutes on line and you could scroll through hundreds of images of whatever you wanted to look at. Also, if you have social media, you can just scroll down your feed and you would see plenty of posts of people. The internet can be a very dangerous place for those that have insecurities and are looking for proof that those insecurities are real. If you think you are too heavy and then you search for proof of that on-line you will find it. That is how the internet works. You ask a question and it searches all the data and gives you an answer to the question that you just asked it. Your brain is the same. If you have an insecurity and you ask your brain for find proof of it, your brain will. The awesome thing about your brain is that the opposite is also true. If you ask your brain to prove to you that your insecurity is not true it will do that as well. For instance, if you ask your brain why no one at work likes you, it will search all your memories and come up with reasons why your co-workers don’t like you. However, if you ask your brain to prove to you that people at your work do like you, your brain will come up with an answer for that question as well. If you do not like the answers you are coming up with then you need only ask better questions.
The main speaker at the conference said something this weekend and I think would be great if everyone in the world heard it. She said that when she was sitting in the audience at her first personal development conference, she had an realization wash over her. She felt it was divine intervention. The realization was “What if I was on purpose? What if God made me exactly like I am for a reason?” I think this is so important because I think so many of us feel like there is some part of us that is wrong. We feel like we would be better if that part of us didn’t exist. I always wished that I wasn’t so emotional. I have thought this more times than I can count. I cry at happy things, I cry at sad things, I cry at spiritual things, I cry for someone else’s happy times, and someone else’s pain. I am just a mess sometimes. I always thought this was a character flaw. However, now I know that God gave me that ability. I don’t know why He made me that way, but God doesn’t make mistakes. So, there must be a reason.
The same goes for you. You were made on purpose. God knew what he was doing. He designed each part of you for a reason. He pays attention to detail. How would your life be different if you could hear this and really take it in? How would you feel about yourself if the next time you started to feel insecure about something you reminded yourself that God made you this way on purpose. You are perfect just as you are. You are loved just as you are. Your are enough just as you are.
Dear Heavenly Father I ask that you bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord help us to see ourselves through your eyes. Help us to see everyone through your eyes. Lord help remind us when we feel insecure that you made us on purpose. Remind us Lord that you created our inmost being. You knit us together perfectly and completely. And if you made us on purpose Lord then that means we can't be a mistake. That means our hopes and desires aren't a mistake. That means our character isn't a mistake. We love you Lord Jesus and we thank you for making us who we are and we ask that you help us learn to love who we are. We thank you for making us in your likeness and image. You are amazing and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus holy name amen.