According To Plan
“For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works and that I know very well.”
(Psalm 139: 13,14)
Three days ago I witnessed the birth of my grandchild. Soon after her birth, I unwrapped the blanket and checked fingers and toes, the size of her head, the state of her back. (After all, I have worked as a nurse in an IC nursery!) But Kaari’s body was perfect. When she opened her big blue eyes and studied her mother and father’s face, we knew that she was not only perfect, but intelligent as well. “What a miracle,”we kept saying. It was easy to believe that this beautiful little person was a handiwork of God.
But what about all the other babies I had seen in the ICU with serious problems? Are they also carefully designed by God? Does God have a special plan for them as well?
I believe He does.? For instance, one of my friends was born with brittle bones. An enzyme needed for proper bone development was lacking in her body. Consequently, at birth her little legs were broken in several places and they hung like limp sausages. By the time Marilyn was five years old, she’d had multiple breaks and more than twenty surgeries. Doctors set broken bones and inserted steel pins to strengthen her limbs and spine. Marilyn has been confined to a wheelchair most of her 42-year life span. She’s just over four feet tall.
Still, Marilyn’s attitude couldn’t be brighter. “I thank God for my awesome life,” she says. “All of us have challenges; mine just happen to be more visible. With God’s help we can master our challenges and reach for our dreams.” And she has done so. She lives in a beautiful apartment with her best friend Sylvia, who also has brittle bones. They share a wonderful prayer and speaking ministry. “Our wheelchairs are a blessing,” she says. “They give us a platform to reach? people that able – bodied persons can’t reach.”
What challenges are you facing today? How can you make that difficulty a platform for blessing?
~Father, I love you. Thank you for making me, not haphazardly, but according to a beautiful plan and with a purposeful life in mind. I want this day to be a blessing to myself and to others.
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