Every Day with Jesus: Faith for the Journey預覽

Change Management

‘For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’ Psalm 139: 13–14a 

Fear is most often stirred as we look outwards at a rapidly changing world with circumstances we neither understand nor control. Our minds fill with phantoms of what might become of us in a dark and foreboding landscape. 

God interrupts the drama within my head and reminds me of my origins. I was carefully ‘knit together’ at God’s instruction within the womb. I’ve been known from before my conception. Unique and chosen, I belong to God. I carry eternity within my soul. 

Entering this world my confidence is consistently contested. Do I succumb to my worst fears and the judgments of others? Too often I live my life under the shadow of another’s opinion. I forget my inheritance as an image bearer of the Divine. I am a child of God, ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’. I hear the words, yet fail to embrace them as my testimony. 

It is to God alone that I’m required to give an account of myself. The perceptions of others, whilst they might wound me and undermine my self-confidence, cannot endure the scrutiny of God. For God sees the person carefully crafted and chosen to live within God’s divine purpose and destiny. 

Too often I become my own worst enemy. I crumble before the tall giants that rise up along life’s path and fail to look inwards, to enter my closet and pray to the one who forged me from nothing. In this place, even when I feel like ‘nothing’, I am reminded that God creates life, purpose, hope and destiny out of nothing. 

Consequently I am something, or rather somebody, both now and throughout eternity. 

Something to Consider: Think of those moments in life when you have felt most at home. Why was that? 

An Action to take: Identify a characteristic that you will work at developing in collaboration with God. 

A Prayer to make: ‘Lord, enable me to see beyond my own self-criticism and perceive the person you created me to be and who you have always known’.