I was listening to this song today on the way home by Matt Redman called Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.  There’s never been a time that I listen to this song and it doesn’t grip my soul, and today, it did again.  I don’t know about you, but in my humanity, I am constantly questioning.  Why am I here?  Am I doing the right things?  Is God pleased with me?  Do people like me?  Am I good enough?

These questions can be downright overwhelming at times and can bring about much fear and anxiety if we don’t put these emotions in check with the word of God.  The first scripture that comes to mind for me is this:

For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.

Psalm 139:13-16 (NKJV)

Maybe you’re not as strong as someone else and maybe society has even labeled you as “not normal” or somehow challenged.  Maybe there are lots of people that do many things better than you, but I’m willing to bet that there’s something that you can do better than many others.  The bottom line is that it’s hard for me to read this passage in Psalms and see where God somehow messed up.  My interpretation is that…He didn’t.  We may just not be seeing what He sees.

I especially love the end here where the psalmist writes that his “days have been fashioned” even before his days even began.  That idea in and of itself is a blog for another day.  If I really try to sit and think about what that really means, my head hurts.  But at its core, it means simply that God has things that He’s intended for me.  In times when I’m full of doubt and questions, that’s a really refreshing thought.

If you need some inspiration, you’ve got to get this song by Matt Redman.  Get it HERE on iTunes.