Keech's Korner

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 workmanship is marvellous
    and how well I know it.

(Psalm 139: 13-14)

Let me encourage you to honestly and courageously reflect on:

What is wonderful about you?

What is amazing about you?

What is it about you that reflects the wonder and creativity of God?

When we undertook this exercise on Sunday the 6^th July, I had feedback afterwards that some people found it hard to do because they were so afraid of pride and thinking too highly of themselves. My response is that humility is NOT about putting ourselves down but lifting others up. True humility involves recognising and celebrating the unique and special person you are and honouring everyone you meet as even more unique and special – genuinely honouring them and lifting them up.

The other reflection that came out of this exercise is that “we can’t celebrate our worth until we know where our sense of unworthiness comes from.” I think this is true. All of us have in some way received messages throughout our lives that we are not good enough. Some of us have been terribly put down and abused by significant others. It is necessary to identify and face these experiences and the unhealthy messages we have taken on board, so we can lay them at God’s feet, receive Abba God’s healing grace and love, and accept His view of us which is that we are fearfully and wonderfully made – absolutely precious to Him.

Remember that your uniqueness is God’s gift to the world.

Yours in Christ

Graham Keech