100 Days with Jesus: God Made Me and He Doesn't Make Junk!

Day 22


When the alarm went off this morning I was so sleepy. I even felt dizzy because I was sleeping so sound. I really didn’t want to get up. I’ve been working a lot of hours for the past few weeks and I guess it finally caught up with me. So I decided that the world wouldn’t come to an end if I wasn’t in the office before 8:00 so I dozed off and grabbed an extra hour of sleep. When I woke up again, I felt refreshed and ready to go. It caused me to stop and think about the miracle of the human body. My body talks to me and tells me what it doesn’t want or what it needs. Sometimes that voice is in my outward appearance when I look in the mirror and see a few extra pounds or the sleepiness I feel when it’s tired or the hunger when it doesn’t get the proper nourishment. As I grow older, I’ve become more attentive to my body’s voice. Maybe I think more about the shortness of life or perhaps the voice is much louder than when I was younger. The little aches and pains are certainly difficult to ignore.

But it still amazes me how God created this human body that no man can replicate or even fully understand. In Ephesians 3:9 Paul said, And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ. God created everything, including me. I was no accident. I didn’t come from the evolvement of a monkey and all the miraculous workings of the body most definitely were not caused by some explosion. Because I know that God created me, I also know that He has a purpose for me, a reason for me to exist. For that reason, even when life is difficult, I have the comfort of knowing I’m not alone. God didn’t create me to abandon me. He created me to be a light that will point others to Him. I’m reminded of a child’s t-shirt that I saw once that said, ‘God made me and He doesn’t make junk.’ I’m not junk and neither are you! So let’s shine!