Your Workmanship Is Marvelous

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

June 2, 2025

Your Workmanship Is Marvelous

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psalm 139:14 (NRSV)

The NLT renders today’s verse as,

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! 

Both translations end verse 14 with a personal affirmation of owning God’s wonderful work in their creation, i.e.,

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (v.14b NLT) 

As I read these translations this morning, I sensed God asking me, “Well son, what do you say about my creation of you?” This question stung a bit, for as you know, one of my favorite prayers includes the line, “My life belongs to God. By creation and redemption, I belong to God.” In the ten thousand times I have said that phrase, I cannot recall ever adding,

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

I believe these words are not just expressing the heart of the psalmist. I believe it is the desire of God’s heart that all his children own that they are fearfully and wonderfully made. And to this affirmation we add, “Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.” (v 14b NRSV)

My Takeaway: Owning who and whose we are enables us to stay in the grace for today, and I believe it releases us to live out the spiritual gifts the Holy Spirit has bestowed on us.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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