I am fearfully and wonderfully made

LOGOI
Jul 2
3 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

Many of us have the phrase from Psalm 139:14, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” in a picture frame hanging on our wall.

It’s incredible, for example, that every day, our heart pumps roughly 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels. How about that when we are young, our bones can be stronger than steel or that our stomach acids can dissolve metal? Scientists tell us our brains are more complex than any supercomputer with some 86 billion neurons making trillions of connections at speeds faster than we can blink.

Yes, we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

I recently visited a friend of almost 30 years. She is an incredible lady, a wonderful mother and wife and enjoyed a successful graphic design career. I had learned she had dementia (possibly Alzheimers) and was warned the visit may be difficult. It was. She looked great and her smile beamed, but this terrible disease was taking its toll.

Do you ever get upset with God? I do. I was very upset how much my Dad suffered before the Lord took him home. I was upset when my sister-in-law got breast cancer. I was upset when my son and daughter-in-law desperately wanted a baby and had such a difficult time getting pregnant.

I remember being upset after visiting a pastor’s home in Venezuela. He was (and is) part of our LOGOI family and I loved his big laugh and winsome spirit. Our small mission group visited his home and we tried to not grimace as he apologized for the rats. His kitchen ceiling had an opaque drop-down ceiling and we could see the rats as they scurried around.

“Why the rats, Lord?” I mumbled under my breath, “He’s already poor and struggling, does he need rats, too?” If God answered me at that moment, I couldn’t hear Him through my “upset” brain. We provided him with a small collection of money and other items we had with us before heading back to our rat-free, air-conditioned hotel.

I know with just a thought, God can cure every disease, solve every problem, and right every wrong. As I write this, however, “Who are you to question God with your ignorant, empty words?” comes to my mind as God asked a suffering Job who had lost everything (Job 38:1).

So many of our LOGOI brothers and sisters are poor and struggling and living with “rats in their ceilings.” I work in the “ministry business,” and know that one day, God will indeed “fix it” and make everything right. Even so, I still struggle with wanting it all right now. Maybe you do, too.

One of the blessings we’re able to pass along to our Spanish brothers and sisters are the hundreds and hundreds of on-the-job Bible resources we provide to them absolutely free. “I am so grateful for your help and encouragement,” is a common email we receive. They often add, “LOGOI is helping me in my spiritual life as well as in my teaching.”

Of course, your prayers and financial gifts make it possible for us to help them for “free.” We at LOGOI have become quite good at stretching a dollar as far as it can go. Remarkably, $5 still provides a Spanish pastor and leader an entire month of all the “free” Bible training and resources they can get. We continue to believe this is a great investment as we “equip God’s people to do His work and build up the church, the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12).

Thank you for being a part of our LOGOI family. We thank the Lord for you and for your encouragement to us — and to our very large Spanish family.

I’ve thought a lot about my friend of over 30 years who no longer knows my name nor recognizes my face. I know how quickly things can change with just one part of our “fearfully and wonderfully made” bodies getting out of sync. I’ve had a chat or two with the Lord and let Him know I didn’t much like it…and that I’m still upset about the rats.

In a strange way, I felt him put his arm around me and I could almost hear Him say, “I know. It’s going to be all right.”

Forever!