Y - You

Norah Summers July 27, 2023 1 0

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Psalm 139: 13-18 (GNT)

13 You created every part of me;
    you put me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because you are to be feared;
    all you do is strange and wonderful.
    I know it with all my heart.
15 When my bones were being formed,
    carefully put together in my mother's womb,
when I was growing there in secret,
    you knew that I was there—
16     you saw me before I was born.
The days allotted to me
    had all been recorded in your book,
    before any of them ever began.
17 O God, how difficult I find your thoughts;
    how many of them there are!
18 If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand.
    When I awake, I am still with you.

Am I really made in God’s very image? When I speak to God directly, as the psalmist does here, am I looking in a mirror? Am I reflecting back what the Creator has made of me?

What an awesome thought.

The TV series Who do you think you are? researches family histories, often to the great astonishment of the participants. My brother and one of our cousins have actually produced a book about the side of the family we share, and it is fascinating reading. But that is only one part of my inheritance and it is not necessary to go very far back to begin to count the ancestors in their dozens. So who am I?

I think I know my identity – Identity that is, after all the generations, unique to me. (Though in common with many others of my age, I know I am actually turning into my Mother…)

With all the weight of the past in me, can I aspire to be more Christ-like?

My earwom today is an old American spiritual – “If anybody asks you who I am, tell them I’m a child of God.”

PRAYER:

Loving God,

you know me very well,

better than I know myself.

There is no hiding place,

all my thoughts and intentions are plain to you.

That is a scary idea –

but I know also that you have made me in your image,

so I ask that you make that plain to me,

and give me grace to accept myself,

with your gifts of honour, virtue and wisdom,

and to know you through Jesus,

the Christ,

who came to make you known to us.