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Imagine for a bit that you want to build and run a hospital.
First you would need to determine what the hospital will be for – cancer treatment, pediatric, psychiatric, rehab, or just general.
Once you’ve got the plan you need to build it.
Then you need the people to run it – the doctor’s and nurses, of course, but there’s also a lot of others needed to make it work – administrators, intake people, cooks and kitchen workers, cleaning and maintenance.
Each person meeting a specific need and having the necessary skills.
In a similar way, God knew what kind of a world He wanted, and He created it.
He also had a plan for this world and knew exactly what people He needs to fulfill that plan.
The passage for today speaks about people being created by God.
Created by God
When we look at the complexity of the human body and how all its parts work together it is hard to believe that it all happened as the result of chance or blind evolution.
It seems much more likely that we are the work of a creator, a very artistic creator who loves diversity.
All the rest of creation came into being because God spoke.
But when it came time for the first person to be created God took a direct role, You might He got His hands dirty.
Not just the first human, but each person is created by God.
Knit me together, woven together
The human body is an amazing organism.
There are 37 miles (60km) of nerves in the human body.
Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four times!
The entire surface of your skin is replaced every month
To write out the DNA information in one cell would take three hundred volumes, each five hundred pages thick.
The human body contains enough DNA that if it were stretched out, it would circle the sun 260 times.
In 2012 it was discovered that the mesentery, found in our digestive systems, is a single organ.
In 2020 a set of previously unknown large salivary glands were discovered
Not only did He create us in the womb, but He continues to create us throughout our lives, fashioning us as a potter fashions the clay.
For a purpose
God doesn’t create anything or anyone for no reason.
Everything God does is for a reason, every person He creates has a purpose.
Sometimes we may wish that God had made us differently, maybe taller, or smarter, or with a different hair color, or without some physical problem.
If we become unhappy with the way we are, assuming it’s not the result of something we’ve done, let us remember the words of Isaiah:
Isaiah 29:16 … Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”?
Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing”?
Instead we can trust that God made us a certain way in order to perform a specific role in His plan.
We can’t all be surgeons, someone has to prepare the food or clean the rooms.
Just as every part of our body is necessary, so each one of us is needed, with our individual abilities, personalities, and experiences.
As the psalmist wrote: All the days ordained for me were written in your book.
Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
Worship
The psalmist responds to God’s creation by being in awe and offering worship.
I praise you because wonderfully made
Service
Of course, God didn’t create us just for the fun of it.
He has work for us to do.
While God could have made the world in such a way that we weren’t needed, having everything work itself out automatically or by doing it Himself, He chose to give us a part to play.
If we are unhappy or dissatisfied with our life perhaps it is because we are not doing what God created us to do.
Every item in your kitchen has a purpose.
Trying to cook your food in the refrigerator just isn’t going to work, it wasn’t designed to do that.
Trying to do something God didn’t intend for us to do will not work either.
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