I Believe in Miracles

Psalm 139:13-16   

            

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

 

 

I was blessed to be able to visit with some long-time family friends yesterday. They welcomed their first grandbaby this year and I made the mistake (not really) of asking to see pictures of the sweet girl. Commence the oohing and ahhing and carrying on about how precious and adorable she is. Looking at her perfectly formed little features (the toes, fingers and ears get me every time) its clear to see she is a little miracle, fashioned and formed by a creative Creator.

 

My pastor is working his way through Ecclesiastes and has managed to stay above the drudgery of meaninglessness this book portrays. In his sermon this morning, he talked about coming to terms with the brevity of life and the eventuality of death. He didn't dwell there, thank goodness, but my mind started chasing rabbits...sorry, Pastor Craig.  

 

When we are born, everyone recognizes and exclaims that we are miraculous little beings. So when does the miraculous wear off? It doesn't! Every day that I wake up, I am a miracle. Every breath I take is miraculous. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Now, maybe it would be weird for us to walk around and say, "How's it going, you little miracle, you?", but I think it is something to think about. We so often take each other, and ourselves, for granted. Miracle status often reemerges when our health fails and we experience healing, but we should be living in the miraculous all the time.

 

Not only has God fearfully and wonderfully made me in His image, He has made me for such a time as this. I am not here at this moment in history by mistake. I am where I am because of His great love and purpose for my life. He has plans for me, and has had them from the beginning. I am His miracle, His workmanship, His masterpiece created for His glory to be and to do that which will draw others to Him.