Wonderfully and Fearfully Made
Month 2: Does God Exist? · Bible Story
Today's Scripture
Read together: Psalm 139:13–16
13 For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Memory Verse
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.”— Romans 1:20 (BSB)memorize this week
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: 1 Corinthians 11–13
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Around Day 45 of 365 — Paul's great chapter on love.)The Heart of It
David looks down at his own hands and writes, "I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." He is asking the same question this whole month asks. Is God real? And he finds one of the loudest answers right inside his own skin. You don't have to go to a telescope to find evidence for God. You can find it by looking in a mirror. Your eye focuses light better than any camera. Your ears turn invisible waves in the air into music and your mother's voice. Inside every one of your cells sits a coil of DNA. It's a written instruction book that tells your body exactly how to grow. It's so long it would fill a stack of thousands of pages. Instructions don't write themselves. A book points to an author.
David also says God saw him "being made in secret," when he was "yet unformed." That means God was thinking about you. He was knitting you together before anyone else even knew you existed. You are not a random pile of leftover stardust that happened to bump into the right shape. You were planned. You were designed. You were wanted. God wrote you into His book before you took your first breath. Sometimes a friend will say, "Maybe nobody made us. We just happened." You can answer gently and honestly. The more we learn about how a body works, the harder it is to believe nobody planned it. The fingerprints of a Maker are all over you.
Around the Table
God made your fingers, your eyes, and even your sneeze — on purpose! You are wonderful because God made you.
Let's do it: Wiggle ten fingers and say, "God made me wonderfully!"
Your body is full of tiny instructions called DNA. They tell it how to grow. And instructions always come from a mind. What does that tell us about where you came from?
Let's talk: What is one thing about your body that amazes you when you really think about it?
A single human cell holds information more advanced than any code humans have written. Every time we actually know where coded information came from, it came from a mind. So the most reasonable explanation for the code in your DNA is a Mind too.
Let's go deeper: Your body is "fearfully and wonderfully made." How should that shape the way you treat yourself and other people?
💬 Conversation Starter
If your body came with an instruction manual, what is one chapter you'd want to read? Here's the good news. God already wrote your "manual" before you were born!
🛡️ Defending the Faith
Sometimes someone says, "We're just an accident of nature." You can answer with both kindness and confidence. Every coded instruction we've ever found came from a mind. And your DNA is the most amazing code of all. Pointing that out isn't bragging on ourselves. It's giving "a reason for the hope that is in you, with gentleness and respect" (). We let our own bodies testify to the Maker.
For Dad · Go Deeper
The design argument is one of the most accessible apologetics for children, because the "evidence" is literally inside them. You don't need a lab. You need wonder. Lead by modeling awe rather than arguments. A dad who marvels out loud at how his child was made teaches more than a dad who merely wins debates. The molecular machinery in a single cell displays specified complexity that points beyond chance. Think of the cell membrane, DNA replication, and protein folding. But remember the goal isn't just intellectual assent. It's worship. David's response to being "fearfully and wonderfully made" was praise, not pride. Help your kids land in the same place. Their existence is a gift from a Maker who saw them in secret and called them very good.
Draws on: Sean McDowell, A New Kind of Apologist.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, thank You that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. We see Your fingerprints in our own bodies. Help us treat ourselves as the treasures You made us to be. Help us treat others that way too. In Jesus' name, amen."
I am not an accident. I was knit together on purpose by a God who saw me before anyone else did.