Fearfully and Wonderfully

Intro: Introduce myself

Talk about my 5th and 6th grade experience.

I struggled because I didn’t know who I was and I didn’t understand God’s love for me

Psalm 139:1–16 NASB95

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

We learn three things from this passage that we are going to talk about.

God knows you. (1-6)

We believe in a God that is all-powerful and all-knowing, so it would make sense that He knows who you are.

But, this is deeper than that. He knows everything about you. He is aware of everything that you do and thing

And it’s because of His love that He knows all this

Explain

God is with you. (7-12)

There is nowhere that you could go where you couldn’t find God. He is all around you.

This means that when everything is going great, you can know that it’s because of Him that it is happening.

But, it also means that whenever you have a problem you can know that He is with you and will get you through it. (11-12)

God made you. (13-16)

God is the one who created you. You were born and continue to exist because of God.

He didn’t just make you. He didn’t just throw parts together to make you. He created you fearfully and wonderfully. He took His time to form you exactly as you are.

The best example of this is the cross.