"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well" - Psalm 139:14 (NIV).
King Solomon has been described as the wisest man that ever lived. "Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt" (I Kings 4:30). A glimpse of his knowledge is not only captured in the books of the Bible he wrote - Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon-but also his architectural skills in supervision over the construction of the the temple of the Lord (I Kings 5-6).
It is written, "On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold" (I Kings 6:29-30). But why would this wise man devote such attention to create a work of exceeding beauty for the Lord! One explanation we can fathom is that Solomon was deeply aware and much humbled how God had formed us. "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27).
The human being is the ultimate work of power, beauty and finesse. Take the human eye- a living optical device with over 30 distinct organs attached to the central nervous system. There's also the spinal cord- a long thin structure that has many functions being the center of our nervous system.
After observing all this so many have acknowledged that it was not by chance that we came to be. Rather, there was a God of creation who designed us so perfectly, that we may worship Him in "spirit and truth" (John 4:24).
Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, today seeing how beautiful you made me I rise to worship and praise you, for you have wonderfully made me, this I pray in Jesus's name.
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Just before fire was unleashed down on Sodom and Gommorah, Lot was told to pack up with his wife and two daughters and leave their homestead. Now, once out of danger, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt” ( Gen 19:26). Perhaps here we might pause and ask why she was bothered to look back.
Of course it could have been that old “curiosity killed a cat” mistake! Yet, it could also have been Lot’s wife was not sure where she was going and longed for her old life back. This is a common error. There was nothing stirring to look back. Just before Lot’s neighbors had attacked his house eager to rape his visitors. “They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” ( vv 5). Was there anything worth looking back to!
The case of Lot’s wife could be anyone else’s experience. The Lord has plucked you out of some mess. You have been delivered to a new life. Yet, somehow you decide to look back, as though there was anything good and worth longing for. Sometimes it is a bitter past you have been delivered from. Other than rejoice in your new blessings you keep being drawn back!
A wise caution goes, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly” ( Proverbs 26:11). If the Lord has just led you out of a certain mess why look back like it was much better! Instead look ahead, for “he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past” ( vv 17- 18).
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I thank you for delivering me from the darkness of the past and I look forward to a bright new future in you, this I pray in Jesus’ name!
