Have you ever
seen professional/experts knitting? Now I’m not talking about that one class where
you had to knit (and you hated it) but I mean, people that have been knitting a
while, those that enjoy doing it, and do it with joy, with skill and with such
prowess you can’t help but admire their work?
Have you noticed
not just the beautiful final products they come up with (every single time!)
but also the immeasurable care they put into making sure every box or square or
pattern comes out just right? What about the time they put in? They don’t take
short-cuts because they know how beautiful the final product can be and they
will not settle for anything less than it. And when the final product is
complete, have you seen the pride in their faces as they look at it? And then
the grins on their faces and sparkle in their eyes when they show it to any and
everyone who will care to stop to look?
Well, Psalms
139:13 says:
Imagine that!
The Creator of earth and heaven, of all things seen and unseen knit you! He took
the time, the care and the patience to put you together from scratch. From a
glorious vision he had of your destiny and your purpose on this earth, He took
the time to step by step work on fashioning you in your mother’s womb.
Sometimes we
forget how special we are (as individuals and to God). I’ve heard this
expression: “I’m special (and unique), just like everyone else.” That’s not so
special is it? It’s no fun to think that your uniqueness is similar to everyone
else – it takes A LOT away from you feeling special doesn’t it? Consider this:
if a toy was being made by a particular manufacturer and had the label,
‘specially created for you' as the tag line for each child – that would be true
to an extent. Each box has a unique code that differentiates it from all the
other identical toys shipped out to different stores and homes. That makes the
toys unique, but only on the outside; the inside of all the toys is exactly the
same since they are mass-produced.
The Bible says
this is NOT how God formed you. He did not just create a prototype and batch
produce humans with a different unique ID. He spent time, carefully worked on you
to perfection – both on the inside and out. KNITTING. So your skin colour might
be like someone else’s, your ears and nose similar to your grandparents’ but
there are a million other things inside of you including your destiny and
purpose God interwove with your special traits/characteristics for you to fulfil.
I don’t know
about you but what a joy to know that each quirk we have, each little detail
about our lives and who we are at our core was carefully fashioned and
specially designed and signatured by God.
Know this today:
You are all kinds of special! You were fashioned by God.
