Food for ThoughtPsalm 139:13 Knit Me Together
Food for Thought
An all-creatures.org Guide to Kingdom Living

By Marni Montanez

Psalm 139:13 New International Version

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Remember the 1960's when the enlightened wisdom of the day was, "I have to find myself."? These were the kids taking drugs and following every cult imaginable to "find themselves.” I wonder if any of them did.

I grew up in the 60s but never used that phrase until I became a Christian. I thought I knew myself. I was convinced that I was perfectly healthy and normal. Of course, when you are in self-denial, you don't know it's self-denial....right?  So, I went along my merry way feeling frustrated, depressed, and angry and giving the impression that I was very secure, but it was all a facade.  Then...........................God!

I remember one day sitting on my living room rug in Texas praying. I have no idea what I was praying about, but I sure appeared holy and solid. Suddenly out of nowhere I got this revelation about myself and the words that came out of my mouth even stunned me.

Blurting out in a semi loud voice I said “I know, I'm not real!" It came out as if I was in a conversation with someone about myself and they had asked, "So what's wrong with you?" and I answered.

Immediately I saw a vision of the Holy Spirit, pointing at me and He said, "That's it!” It's like He had been waiting for me to get that understanding for a long time. So when I did get it, He wasted no time in making sure it stuck. I couldn't explain it to anyone. I couldn't even explain it to myself, but deep inside I knew what He meant.

I sat there stunned and not really knowing where to go with that new information about my, now shattered, image.  At times, the Holy Spirit can be brutally honest in a way that will both quicken and soften the heart. So, now what? Where does one go with that kind of stunning new information? After all, I had gone to counseling many times, read self­-help books and stood in many prayer lines, but none of that gave me insight as to who I was. So now I was using that infamous phrase, "I have to find myself.”

The deeper into relationship I went with the Lord the more I became aware of who He created me to be. As time went on I started shedding some of those weighty facades and accepting myself in a way that was liberating. Even today, I know there are still parts of me that are just now surfacing and as they do there is a process of adjustment and becoming comfortable with these parts. I have grown to love myself even in the "becoming" of who God created me to be. I know I am not done, but I also know that God never stopped creating me.

Every day is an opportunity for something new to arise that I had not known about myself. I must continue to re-adjust myself to incorporate the part of me that was abandoned or hidden. All around you there are people who want to shape you into their image; whether it is your family members or friends and the truth is, they don't know who you were supposed to be and neither do you. The only One who knows exactly who you are supposed to be is the One who created you. So the next time you are lost in an endless array of questions about who you were created to be, try looking into the eyes of your Creator..........You will find yourself there.

God bless,

Marni

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