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  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14

Thomas Lord continues that man is fearfully and wonderfully made morally as well; here is an excerpt from his sermon notes:

Morally, man is "fearfully and wonderfully made." These natures of ours are distinguished by a moral sense, as well as by a mental power and a social influence. 

 We are gifted with a sense of right and wrong, of which we can never be divested to all eternity. We can understand the difference; can choose the evil and reject the good; or we are at liberty to choose the good and repudiate the evil. 

The choice is our own act; the praise, the blame our own. We may be driven to choose between conflicting duties; never obliged to choose between criminal acts, or to act criminally at all. 

We may be virtuous or vicious; range ourselves on the side of heaven or hell; walk with the wise, or choose to be the companions of fools. 

Do we regard aright this fearful responsibility? 

Do we live as if thus distinguished from the rest of the terrene creation?

Enough questions to ponder I guess. Shall we praise the Lord who fearfully and wonderfully made us moral beings - allowing us to choose between the good and evil?  

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