A Christian Meditation on God Made and Loves Your Body from Psalm 119:73

<p>Your hands made me and formed me (Ps 119:73. You exist because God formed you and made you. God wants you to exist in his world. God made YOU and formed YOU. But the imaginative language of making and forming is the language of the love and care and detail of an artist for their creation. God specifically created you by his own hand with love and care for every detail. That’s how he sees you now.</p><p><br></p><p>If your podcast is a set to skip silent sections, disable that now.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Psalms 119:73 (NIV)</strong></p><p>Your hands made me and formed me.</p><p><br></p><p>This is imagination. Notice that the “me” the psalmist is referring to includes the body.</p><p><br></p><p>You <em>are</em> your body. You are more than your body. But not other than your body.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The biblical view of your body is that it is part of your soul. An eternal part of who you are. That’s why you will have a bodily resurrection in your eternal salvation. Your body – your brain, your spine, your entire central nervous system, all your nerves, your organs, your muscles, all of your cells — your body is part of your soul. Your body needs <em>spiritual</em> life and peace and the rejuvenating sense of God’s presence and love.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This sense of God‘s presence and love starts with less static and noise. This is a time to spiritually nourish your mind and your body. This is a time to focus your entire soul — including your mind and your body — on God‘s light and God‘s life and God‘s love for you.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And to use your biblically guided imagination to feel this reality <em>into</em> your body.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Quietly say to God…</p><p><strong>Psalms 119:73 (NIV)</strong></p><p>Your hands made me and formed me.</p><p><br></p><p>Your imagination is always felt <em>into</em> your body. It’s how God made you. When you wake up from a stressful dream you <em>feel</em> the stress of your imagination into your body. Sweat. Heart racing. Fear. Worry. Unease. But all that