Nothing Compares to You

“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” Psalms 139: 4 NIV
What a glorious thing to know. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. So why do we compare ourselves to others……why do we want what others have, why do we want to do what others do or look how others look? We do it all the time. We wish to have something else, something different; something that was not fearfully and wonderfully made for us. A wish for curly hair, a wish for a smaller nose, a wish to be taller or a wish to just not be us……..
But have we stopped to take notice of what we do have. Of what God has fearfully and wonderfully made in us. It’s hard to do at times. What about the straight hair that you have, maybe with some gray hair that is now peaking through? God has counted those hairs. “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered” Luke 12:7 NIV. And why has he counted all those hairs….the curly ones, the straight ones and even the pesky gray ones? It’s because we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Take comfort in knowing your hair, your nose, your height, or whatever it is that you compare to others was made for you. Just for you, by a God who loves you and all your features. You are worthy of those pesky gray hairs.
Our desires to wish for what others have, does not allow us to value what we do have and what was made for us. We never fully appreciate the beauty that is within us. Beauty that was fearfully and wonderfully made for us by God. He created the mountains, the seas and the galaxies. We marvel in their beauty and amazement. There is no comparison in them and there is no comparison to you. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvel in your beauty made by him. It is AMAZING.

So go out there and be AMAZING in who God made you to be.
Mandy Cornelius