Created for Impact

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalms 139:13‭-‬14 NLT

The 21st century celebrates individualism. It appears now that each person is free to decide who he is and what he is to become. We now see boys/men not content to remain such but undergo sex change surgeries to look like girls, and vice versa. The beauty industry is thriving because it has projected an acceptable image to the world and everyone is spending big to conform to that image, without so much thought to what the creator himself intends.

What is God saying to us here: every single part, visible or hidden, everything that makes up the complex creature called ME wasn't accidental; God took time to form, fashion, fix and place each part where it should, and breathed his life into the form. I stand today, not because I am smart, but because God is an awesome designer. However I appear, God determines my area of influence and the world I am to impact for him. If I spend my life seeking to impress people, I would have wasted God's resources in my life.

Check out these facts: nobody shares your fingerprints, yet there is a chain of identity that is embedded in your DNA, and which can help trace your history as far back as 5 generations. Your eye is a complex structure, which itself has peculiarities that you alone have, and is the basis of various eye-based technologies today. 

Interestingly, technology seeks to deny God's existence and power, yet relies on God's creative ability to make life more comfortable. Unfortunately, you don't last long when you deal with life outside of God. The Psalmist here had gotten it right: the power is from God, not of man. The workmanship is a testament to God's creative ability, not man's greatest achievement.

What does my life celebrate: God or man? Who does my life acknowledge as Lord and Master? His time of favour is here.