When I was a child, someone close to me thought they could motivate
me to do better by frequently asking me,
“Why are you so stupid?” I
didn’t know how much this had affected me until I was a teenager and
heard someone behind me say, “Stupid!” At the word, I quickly turned
around, thinking he was talking to me.
Knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord helped me to realize that
because God created me in His image (Gen. 1:27), I’m not stupid but am
“fearfully and wonderfully made” (Ps. 139:14). God declares that all He
has made is “very good” (Gen. 1:31), and the Psalms remind us that we
are “skillfully wrought” (Ps. 139:15).
The psalmist David describes how God knows each one of us intimately: “O Lord,
You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my
rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path
and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways” (vv.1-3).
Not only are we wonderfully made, but because of Christ’s death on
the cross, we can also be wonderfully restored to a right relationship
with God. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation . . . . All this
is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ” (2 Cor.
5:17-18 NIV).
In His own image God created man,
He formed his body from the dust of the earth;
But more than that, to all who are in Christ
He gives eternal life by second birth. —Hess
He formed his body from the dust of the earth;
But more than that, to all who are in Christ
He gives eternal life by second birth. —Hess
Each person is a unique expression of God’s loving design.
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