Created Identity

 

How good is it when you nail the ball down the line for the winning point or hammer the ball into the back of the net?  What a feeling, eh?  Is there anything like it?!

 

We are sportspeople.  We all get the buzz of stepping onto the pitch, competing with every ounce of energy and battling against tough opponents.  As sportspeople we get a real sense of worth from performing to our best. 

 

As a young person trying to Pray Play Say in your sport, where does your true identity lie?

 

Read these words of David from Psalm 139;

 

‘For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’

 

What is David praising God for here?  His created identity.  Look what he is saying in these verses;

 

1) ‘For you created’ – here created also means to have something as a possession.  God created us from nothing and designed us exactly as he wanted us to be.  We are his creative possessions!

 

2) ‘my inmost being’ – God has created our bodies as well as everything within us, right down to the deepest depths of our being – every inch of us has been created by him.

 

3) ‘you knit me together in my mother’s womb’ – Again, David is saying that God put us together before we were born – he pieced us together in our mother’s womb.  His design for us was drawn up before we even existed!

 

4) ‘I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made’ – David is praising God for creating us as complex creatures that have been wonderfully made. For us that includes our sporting gifts and abilities.

 

How will you play this week in your sport?

Will you use every part of your being to represent God with how you play?

 

Let’s allow our created identity to drive us this week as we play our sport and seek to please the Creator by whom we have been ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’.