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Psalm 139:14

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
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Notice

Giving thanks for being made directs attention toward the Maker, and the closing sentence expresses a confidence that some readers may find hard to share.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

What comes to mind when you read “fearfully and wonderfully made” about your own body?

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What part of being made by God could you give thanks for today?

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How would you describe your confidence in God’s work compared with the confidence expressed in the closing sentence?

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Connect

Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 1:26–27God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the …Both texts identify God as the maker of human life; Genesis names his image, while the psalm responds with thanks.
Psalm 111:2The LORD’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.God’s works receive close attention in both psalms, with delight in Psalm 111 and thankful wonder in Psalm 139.
Psalm 104:24LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.Both praise God’s works, with Psalm 104 surveying the earth and Psalm 139 attending to the making of one person.
Psalm 92:4–5For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.God’s work prompts a personal response in both passages: gladness in Psalm 92 and thanks in Psalm 139.
Psalm 40:5Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare …Both call God’s works wonderful, with Psalm 40 describing their countless number and Psalm 139 naming the wonder of being made.
Job 5:9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;Both passages express wonder at God’s work, though Job speaks of countless deeds and the psalm of being made.
Genesis 1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.Both attribute human existence to God’s creative work; Genesis names his image, while the psalm voices thanks for being made.
Revelation 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and …Praise for God’s wonderful works joins the psalm’s personal thanksgiving with the song of Moses and the Lamb.
Mark 7:37They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”The shared thread is wonder at what has been done: being made in the psalm, and Jesus enabling hearing and speech in Mark.
Luke 9:43They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,Wonder at God’s work links the psalm’s thanks for being made with the crowd’s astonishment at what Jesus did.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 139:14 aloud before getting dressed

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Encouragement

Your body’s limits do not erase its Maker’s work. The psalm’s thanks rests on God’s wonderful work in forming a human life.

Now put it in your words.

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