Wednesdays in the Word: Verse Y

I've told you before that the verses I picked out for this list were ones that I hoped captured some of the main lessons I would want to impart to someone else if I were in a position to impart something. Important truths. Critical challenges.

I'm excited about this one, because it was one of the most important things I ever absorbed into my own heart...coupled with one of the things I'm still working to learn.

Ever take a look at a picture of yourself and find your eyes immediately drawn to the things you dislike the most? You know what popped into your mind when you just read that. For me it's usually my white roots {if it happens to be at the worst point between colorings}, my nose, random rolls of fat, and my feet.

I thought I would never get over the nose, in particular, until I heard Beth Moore recount the time someone told her she'd be pretty if it weren't for that nose. I happen to think Beth Moore is lovely inside and out and until that point had never even noticed her nose. Now I consider it a privilege to have a Beth Moore-esque nose and if she can be confident in who the Lord made her to be...I can do the same.

Over the years, God has worked in my heart profoundly, instilling the truth that HE made me...on purpose...when He did and where He did and how He did...for a specific reason.

When I wondered why I had to be born so late in life to my parents...He gently taught me {over the course of time} that He had a very distinct purpose in planting me in THAT family in THAT year. When I wondered why I had to be the one who stood in the appetite line twice and entirely missed the love-of-exercise line...He began to teach me that He made me the way I look on purpose and it's okay. The flaws, the imperfections, the things that jump off the picture first...are okay. He made me and I'm worth something.

When I wondered why I can't sing or draw...why all those talents my friends seemed to ooze eluded me entirely...He taught me that the gifts He gave me are the gifts I need.

It's been a series of lesson 36 years in the making and not done yet by a long shot.

And the part I'm still working to learn? To ask for wisdom and understanding. When I could be asking for doses of the talent I feel I missed...or for my nose to shrink or something else of a similar fashion, I need to be asking for wisdom. Wisdom to know who I am in Him and to love who I am in Him.

It's true for you too, you bloggy friend on the other side of this screen. Know that He made you on purpose to be YOU...and if you ask Him for wisdom to understand His commands, He will be faithful to show you each step as you need it.

Let's absorb it together...how much we're loved by the Creator who dreamed us into being!