Denny answers:
God wants you to praise Him about the wonderful way He created you.
Suppose you are drawing a picture of children playing outside. You don’t draw all the children to look exactly the same! You draw some girls and some boys. You draw some with straight, blonde hair, and some with curly, black hair. You draw some tall and some short. You draw some with bright, blue eyes, and some with dark, brown eyes. You would be surprised if one of your drawings folded his arms and grumbled, “I wanted to have brown hair and green eyes. You messed up!”
As silly for a drawing to complain about the way you made him, how much more foolish is it for us to tell our Creator God He “messed up” in making us?
In the Bible, King David said, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 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, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:13-16).
When Amy Carmichael was a little girl, she prayed that God would change her brown eyes to blue. When she grew up and became a missionary to India, she was thankful God kept her eyes brown because they matched the color of the other women there. Gladys Aylward always wondered why God made her short until she went to China and was the same size as the Chinese women.
God also has a good purpose for how He created you. You may never know His purpose, but you should still trust and praise Him.
Bible Truth
- “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:14).
- “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” (Proverbs 31:30).
- “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight” (1 Peter 3:3-4).
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