Many Colors (Psalm 139:15)

COLORFUL ...YOU

Growing Up Broken

People that have grown up in a dysfunctional home, which could refer to a lot of people, where children were told they were stupid; dumb; wouldn't amount to much; can't do anything right; or were even treated as being unimportant, insignificant, or not even really wanted, can bear deep rooted scars of rejection and inferiority, displaying itself in anger and hatred; lashing out, or withdrawn isolation. Words were spoken that crushed the spirit and wounded the soul, distorting and twisting the personality of someone that God, our Father, made in His image, as a beautiful part of His creation, and until positive, affirming words, based on the truth of the Holy Word of God, are spoken over these precious people, the lies they have believed about themselves, will hold them in bondage, with their behavior reflecting their internal turmoil.

Psalm 139:15 says, "My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, (and) curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth"

Mother's Womb

In this scripture, affirming the uniqueness of every person, of God, our Father's creation, the "lowest parts of the earth" is evidently a poetic phrasing reference to the mother's womb.

Colorful

The words 'curiously wrought', are one word in the Hebrew. The word is (רָקַם), râqam, (7551) [raw-kam’]; a prime root meaning, "to variegate color", "to deck with color", "to embroider", "to weave", "to do needlework"; by implication, "to fabricate". It means to weave with threads of various colors; working various colors into a cloth. The idea is to skillfully weave a garment with various colorful threads. The dictionary definition of 'variegate', is 'to alter in appearance by adding different colors'.

Translations:

"...I was curiously wrought"

"...I was variegated; embroidered"

"...I was woven together in the depths of the earth"

     [Dict. OT Theology & Exegesis, Vol.3, p.1199]

"...I was made in secret and skilfully woven as in an underground workshop"(Beck)

Colorfully.... You

The word is only used 9 times in the scriptures, and with the exception of Psalm 139:15, all of them are in Exodus (Ex.26:36; 27:16; 28:39; 35:35; 36:37; 38:18, 23; 39:29), referring to the skilful and ornate needlework and embroidery in the tabernacle. The emphasis, in this poetic description, is that you have been created by God, your Father, to be unique; there is only one of you, and you have been intricately and skilfully woven together with various 'colors' in your personality and giftings, specific to you, but by His plan and design, to be expressly who He has created you to be, for His glory, as the Master Creator, with each of those 'threads' of color making you totally and completely distinct. Like Joseph's coat of many colors (Gen. 37:3), you are 'clothed', as His child, in many faceted, multi-colors, that make you who you are.

You are God's Best and God's Best is Yours