Verse of the Day for February 2

There is a kind of self-dislike that has learned to sound like humility. It says small things about itself and calls it not being proud, and it is very hard to argue with because it looks like a virtue.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Notice who is being praised. The verse is not a compliment to David. It is worship, and the thing being worshipped is God's workmanship.

Which is why the self-dislike does not survive contact with it. To say I am nothing much is not modesty about yourself; it is a review of somebody else's work.

The psalm goes further than most of us are comfortable with. Covered in my mother's womb. Written in thy book. In continuance fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

You were not assembled at speed out of leftover parts. Whatever you have concluded about your worth, it was reached without consulting the person who made you.

Self-worth in this psalm is not achieved and it is not earned. It is inherited from the fact of being made deliberately.

Praise Him for it. That is the only posture the verse offers.