Q: I can’t believe that my character was created by God, and my height, weight, and looks are substandard. I feel inferior when I see my flaws. How could God have created that?
A: Well, first of all, I want to say very clearly that God did not create the thorns in you — your fears, your pride, your sickness. He doesn’t put those things in us, but He does make us all so different. I mean, look at the creation of all the 8 billion people in the world, and you’re the only one who has those eyes. There’s not another person on the earth that has your voice. No one has your fingerprint. Every time God creates a boy or girl inside of the womb of the mother, it’s brand new, completely unique. That is amazing!
Psalm 139:13-15 says, “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.”
David is talking about the intricate creation that God did inside of your mother’s body to make you. It’s like there is a book in heaven with your name on it, and it has all the unique and wonderful details of how He made you. He decided how far apart your eyes were going to be, how long your nose would be, what your voice would sound like, what color your hair would be. He put together all those things while you were still microscopically tiny in your mother’s womb! That’s amazing!
Before I move on, I want to tell you some things about your body. These are scientific facts, because I feel that you’re judging yourself, and I just want you to know how amazing you are just as a human being:
- In your ears, there are 16,000 tiny, tiny hairs that allow you to hear.
- In your body are about 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels, enough to circle the whole earth.
- Scientists have found out that it is a miracle that your eyes work at all.
I’m telling you these things for two reasons.
- I want you to realize that all this and so many other little miracles are happening in your body all the time, and you have nothing to do with it. Before you have even done a thing, you are already absolutely amazing.
- I want you to see that you have no room to judge yourself. You see, when you judge yourself, you are thinking the wrong thoughts, so I want to give you some right thoughts, thoughts about how amazing you really are. When you replace thoughts of judgement with thoughts of awe and praise, you have no room to judge yourself anymore.
The apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4:3, “But with me, it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you. In fact, I do not even judge myself.”
Who are we to judge ourselves? The apostle Paul didn’t even judge himself. There are so many things we can thank God for, so we should not have any room for looking down on ourselves. Maybe everything in yourself is not the way you would like it. Maybe it doesn’t match what the world thinks is beautiful. Maybe it’s touched by sin and sickness, or maybe you just don’t want your nose to be so long. I don’t know what it is you’re struggling with exactly, but I know this: God intricately took time to form you inside of your mother’s womb, so who are you to judge yourself?
