FULLY FORMED

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well – Psalm 139: 16

Today, I thankfully reflect on my unique creation and wonderful formation as a human being – FULLY FORMED in the eternal Mind of the Master Designer, and by Sovereign Mercy, FULLY FORMED in my mother’s womb. I was complete in His Mind ever before I was conceived in the womb. But in order to ensure full functioning on earth, my Creator kept and nurtured me in the wonder called a “womb”: “My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them” (vv.15-16). God shaped me first inside, then out. He formed me fully in my mother’s womb. Therefore, He knows me inside and out. He knows every bone in my body. He knows exactly how I was made, bit by bit; how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, He watched me grow from conception to birth.

By His Grace, I am a unique creature; a marvel of creation! I am not an accident of nature or a mistake that was made and left to be! God was intentionally involved in making me who I am inwardly (“inward parts”) and outwardly (“my frame”). All the stages of my life were spread out before Him. The days of my life were all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Beyond the marvels of my physiology, God packaged into my “person” distinctive qualities, abilities, talents, and a personality, that distinguish me from every other person on planet earth. I am fully formed – spirit, soul, and body. This revelation of my triune fullness is hidden in Paul’s prayer: “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1The.5:23). It is amazing how God created a world that’s filled with incredible diversity and variety: variety of colors, tastes, sounds, scenery, ideas, and talents!

There is a sense of roundness, completion and fullness around the entire Creation Story. On the first day of Creation God made the heavens and earth and separated the light from darkness, the sequence of evening and morning constituting one day. There was no grey region in-between light and darkness. On the second day God separated the waters above and the waters below the heavens; again, no void left unfilled. On the third day God gathered the seas, allowing dry land to appear and created vegetation, seed plants and fruit trees in all of their flourishing fullness. On the fourth day God created the Sun, Moon and stars and set them in order to be for signs, seasons, days and years. Nothing needed to be added to make this dimension of creation fuller. The programme for each day was perfectly packaged and the specific portion of creation fully formed. On the fifth day God made all the sea creatures and birds of the air. On the sixth day God made cattle, creeping things and the beasts of the earth and then Mankind!

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” (Gen.2:8). God fully formed ‘Man’ as male and female, without ambiguity or a grey zone: “male and female He created them” (Gen.1:27b). It is part of Satan’s strategy to deform the divine order through the ideas of queer beings that see themselves as oscillating between male and female as occasions demand. Ironically, this clear gender binary does not erase the distinctiveness of every being and the amazing variety in humanity. Every one of us is unique, a one-of-a-kind, special, limited edition! There are no two of us alike. This uniqueness doesn’t happen by accident. It’s part of God’s grand design within His Fullness! He formed each one of us lovingly, intentionally, and fully!