It is He Who Made Us
On Friday Ray and I did several errands between the matinee and evening performances of Journey of Faith. During one stop, I browsed a gift shop in search of appropriate gifts for our director daughter and actor granddaughter. I was excited to find pretty zippered travel bags with a Chinese design in blue and white. They seemed perfect for a play about Gladys Aylward’s missionary work in China.
I asked the sales clerk if she could gift wrap them. She offered to wrap them in tissue paper, put each gift in one of the small, specially-designed kraft paper bags the store uses for customer purchases, and tie them with ribbon. They weren’t exactly beautiful, but with the busyness associated with play performance weekend, I was thankful to have them wrapped.
Late Saturday afternoon, as we got ready to head out for the closing performance, I looked at the bags more closely. Printed on one side were white starbursts and flowers in a 1960s flower child style, along with these words: “We create ourselves as we go.”
Oh, dear! I rewrapped them in a hurry. What a terrible message and what a very contemporary message! We do not create ourselves. We cannot make ourselves. We will make a mess if we try.
Instead, we are people God made in His image, people intended to live under His all-wise and loving authority while being grateful that He made us as He did.
Thank you for teaching your children the truth—about this very basic truth:
Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalm 100:3
Such a beautiful reminder! Thank you for always being encouraging…
Thank you so much, Megan. It is a joy.