Embroidered with Colours
Dear Friend,
I have had the joy of leading a Prayer Shawl Workshop at Penhurst Retreat Centre and there are more booked for this year. It was a special time with a small group of ladies as we fellowshipped, shared life experiences and crocheted together.
As I prepared for the day, I felt led by God to share from Psalm 139:13-16. We began our day thinking on these verses and I just wanted to share these thoughts with you today.
Psalm 139:13-16 (NLT)
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvellous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
Our God is our Creator, he created heaven and earth and he created you and me. Knitting us together in our mothers’ wombs. You and I are incredible and individual. Not because of anything we have done, but because God’s workmanship is marvellous! You and I are not here by accident. We are not a mistake (whatever you and I might have been told) because God planned for us to be and he knew us before we were born. When he created us, he thought about our personality, our interests, our talents, everything about us was made deliberately by him.
When I knit or crochet, I sometimes make mistakes and I have to then unpick my work. But that’s never the case with God, because he never, ever makes mistakes.
Consider now verse 14 in another translation:
I will offer You my grateful heart, for I am Your unique creation, filled with wonder and awe.
You have approached even the smallest details with excellence;
Your works are wonderful;
I carry this knowledge deep within my soul. (VOICE)
Please take a moment to read it again and allow it to sink into your spirit.
You and I are God’s “unique creation”. Wow! There is no one else like you. No one else like me. He made you to be you and not to be like anyone else. Trying to be like someone else will not make you happy because they won’t be a good fit for you. Let’s choose to be exactly who God created us to be.
God “approached even the smallest details with excellence”. Again, wow! His creation was no slapdash work, there were no thoughts of “that will do” or “could be better” in God’s heart and mind when he created us. No – every single detail, from the smallest to the biggest was created with excellence.
Consider now part of verse 15 from the Amplified version:
“And intricately and skilfully formed [as if embroidered with many colours] in the depths of the earth.”
You and I have been “embroidered with many colours”. Once more, wow! What a wonderful image that is!
God does not see us in dull, plain, ordinary black and white, but in vibrant colours.
As I shared from that translation with the group of ladies attending the prayer shawl retreat, I felt led to share that God is still embroidering us with colours as we live our lives. Sometimes the colours may be darker which signify the hard, difficult times we go through. At other times, they may be brighter colours. But we need both the darker and the brighter colours embroidered into our lives because God is making something beautiful.
To Think About:
- Spend some time alone with God and ask him to speak to you more about what we read in v14 from the VOICE translation and in v15 from the Amplified translation too.
- Journal about the conversation you have with God.
- Just as God is creative, think about ways he has made you to be a creative person too.
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