My Soul Knows it Very Well
Have you ever felt like you were just DIFFERENT than everyone else? I find that I often view things differently than others. Even the sign on my rearview mirror that says, “Objects are closer than they appear,” seems backwards to me. I would have written, “Objects appear further away than they really are.” Seems much clearer. But that’s just me. I’m different. And we will find in our next study verse, that God intentionally made us all different, Psalms 139:14 New International Version:
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
In this verse “Wonderfully” H6395 means, “to be distinct, marked out, be separated, put a difference, show marvelous, make wonderfully.” So you can see that part of the WONDERFUL God put in us, is in making us each different, marked out for a distinct purpose, not all the same. And that in itself is MARVELOUS!
And “Marvelous” H6381 means “wonderful, extraordinary, distinguished, great”. Think about that for a moment. Take a little time to let that sink into your soul. God made you marvelous. God made you wonderful. God made you extraordinary. God made you distinguished. God made you great. This is what He says about you. The question is-do you believe Him? Do you believe His Word about you?
The psalmist believes. And he commands his soul to give thanks to God for how he is made, saying, “I WILL give thanks to You.” So many of us struggle with our identity, our “different”-ness, but here we see that, like the psalmist, we can command our soul to praise God for how He made us. When we do this, we are exercising FAITH, TRUSTING that He knows what He is doing, and BELIEVING what He says about us-that we are wonderfully made. We aren’t going by what we feel, we are going by what He says. That is FAITH.
And our psalmist says his soul “knows very well” how wonderfully and marvelously he was made by God. But what if my soul doesn’t know this very well? What if I struggle to know this? I definitely have had times when I was down on myself, and I felt like I did not know this “very well” or even well. Let’s remember back at the beginning of this study when Satan attacked Jesus as He was in the wilderness for 40 days, and we saw that two of the three attacks on Jesus were making Him question His identity. God gave us Jesus’ example, so we have a heads up, and know that, yes, our identity will also be attacked and we need to be ready when these attacks come.
So if our soul does not know this “very well”, what do we do? We work at getting what He says about us in our hearts by studying what He says, by memorizing what He says, by praying what He says, by imbedding His truth about us so deeply in our hearts that we can stand strong against these attacks on our identity. It’s really just a matter of TRUST in His Word, FAITH and BELIEVING. Romans 10:17 NIV says:
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
If your faith in this area is weak (I am still working on this area!), then to increase your faith, you just need to HEAR MORE WORD. So get yourself some more Word! Read it, Listen to it, Sing it, Pray it! Then when attacks about your identity in God come, and they will, you can
STAND STRONG ON HIS TRUTH THAT IS ROOTED DEEP IN YOUR HEART.
In His Love,
Suzanne
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