Psalm 139

One of my favorite section of verses in the Bible falls within Psalm 139.  I love the TRUTH that is written there.  Every part of us was designed by our living God!  In Genesis, He created our world and Man, and what did He say:  It is GOOD!  His design that He created is perfect and GOOD.  Guess what?  We are part of that design.  That should give us peace when we worry if our nose is too big or our body shape isn't what the WORLD thinks is good.  Because God said it was good.  Now if that was just a bit easier for our hearts to believe, we would spend fewer hours worrying about looks and whether or not we are the perfect weight.

Over the last several years, I am getting closer and closer to believing the TRUTH written in Psalm 139.  I will admit that I have my days in front of the mirror where I have a serious discussion with God about his idea of perfect, but in the end, He continually reminds me that He designed a beautiful creation.  I remember one day, I listening to KLOVE.  During a commercial break, a woman from Psalm 31 ministries came on and talked about how she realized that her daughters were watching her everytime she turned down her husband's comments about how pretty she was.  She realized how much of an impact that was having on her girls.  For some reason, that Psalm 31 minute had a big impact on me, and I began to realize how many times I put down people's comments and put myself down.  I didn't want to do that in front of my girls.

I pray, I pray, I PRAY that with God's help, I can raise my girls to be Godly young women who believe this truth.  Tim and I have talked so often about what we can do to help them see their true beauty and be self-confident young women who believe they are WORTH the best in life.  And I can make them the promise that I will do my best to follow God's lead in being a strong role model of this for them.  When I look in the mirror in front of them, I will do my best to smile and avoid making negative comments about myself.  When Tim comments me, I will do my best to say "Thank you" even if I don't feel pretty that day.  And when I feel like I can't do any of this, I will get on my knees and pray for God's strength to do it anyway. 

I pray that other mothers out there will take this challenge.  Yes, there are days where we won't feel like doing any of this, but our girls need us.  Yes, we won't be perfect, but God will take care of them when we fall.  He will give us the strength and the wisdom to do this.  All we have to do is humble ourselves and admit that we can't do this on our own and let God do the rest.

Psalm 139


For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.