Collecting Confidenceनमूना

Here’s the truth. Every story, every memory of your life plays a part in fashioning the design that is your calling, and what you were fashioned for is greatness. God knitted you together in your mother’s womb. It says so right in Psalms, along with the revelation that you are “fearfully and wonderfully made”: “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” (Psalm 139:13–14 esv).

Sometimes that verse is printed on birth announcements in frilly font, but you don’t outgrow God’s plan for your life, and I want you to hear it in all caps. You’re the same person you were before the doctor slapped you on the behind. The substance of who you are and who you’re going to be now was designed before the first moment you entered the earth. God sat there and lovingly created you. . . .

I know what it’s like to make fashion. I struggle to create forty new styles every month, let alone making billions of people on the planet. It’s so hard to come up with something creative and unique, but God pulled it off with you. You have characteristics, insights, and experiences that no one else on the planet has, or ever had. Some of those experiences have been good, and some of them have been bad.

But let’s get away from the shame, stereotypes, and labels. I’m not even talking about that stuff. I’m talking about the deep, real, and mysterious components of you that never existed before in the history of the earth until now. . . .

The mold was broken—heck, there wasn’t even a mold to begin with when God fashioned you and knitted you together. It took me a while to understand the implications of this mystery, and I have to remind myself every day.

Prayer

Father, thank You for reminding me that You lovingly created me to be Your unique child. Please help me find strength and confidence in the gifts You’ve given me. Amen.