"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139: 14
Those words came to me in the middle of the night. I suppose sitting out in the hot sun watching my son's track team perform feats I could only imagine might have something to do with it. I was very proud of the entire track team for how much effort they put into getting their bodies conditioned to compete on Saturday. Then I remember this wasn't any coincident because that is precisely the way God made each of us.
Through God's grace He gives each of us the ability to overcome great odds. Which is why on the same day of my son's track meet I read how a 73 year old woman successfully made it to the peak of Mount Everest. This was no small feat you can imagine because as she climbed her way to the top she undoubtedly passed bodies of much younger climbers who became too frail to go further.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said it best in his inaugural speech that there is nothing to fear, but fear itself. He writes further:
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live." This was said by a President who was himself wheel chair bound from the harrowing effects of polio.
Just as God used FDR God can use you in amazing and spectacular ways. In Ephsians 2:10 it says, God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do. As we watch more of our kids graduating from high school and college it is comforting to know that God has a plan for each of us. Just as Franklin Roosevelt became our nations president at the worst time of our nation's history our young people are entering a world more uncertain than ever before. But know this we have a God who fearfully and wonderfully made us to reach our true potential and He alone will use us to bring glory to Him.
Through God's grace He gives each of us the ability to overcome great odds. Which is why on the same day of my son's track meet I read how a 73 year old woman successfully made it to the peak of Mount Everest. This was no small feat you can imagine because as she climbed her way to the top she undoubtedly passed bodies of much younger climbers who became too frail to go further.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said it best in his inaugural speech that there is nothing to fear, but fear itself. He writes further:
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live." This was said by a President who was himself wheel chair bound from the harrowing effects of polio.
Just as God used FDR God can use you in amazing and spectacular ways. In Ephsians 2:10 it says, God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do. As we watch more of our kids graduating from high school and college it is comforting to know that God has a plan for each of us. Just as Franklin Roosevelt became our nations president at the worst time of our nation's history our young people are entering a world more uncertain than ever before. But know this we have a God who fearfully and wonderfully made us to reach our true potential and He alone will use us to bring glory to Him.
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