I am your Creator. You were in
my care even before you were born. Isaiah 44:2a (CEV)
God doesn't play dice. Albert
Einstein
YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT.
Your birth was no mistake or
mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned
you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he
expected it.
Long before you were conceived
by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you
first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are
breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!
The Bible says, "The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me."
God prescribed every single
detail of your body. He deliberately chose your race, the color of your skin,
your hair, and every other feature. He custom-made your body just the way he
wanted it. He also determined the natural talents you would possess and the
uniqueness of your personality. The Bible says, "You know me inside and
out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by
bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something."
Because God made you for a
reason, he also decided when you would be born and how long you would live. He
planned the days of your life in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth
and death. The Bible says, "You saw me before I was born and scheduled
each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your
Book!"
God also planned where you'd be
born and where you'd live for his purpose. Your race and nationality are no
accident. God left no detail to chance. He planned it all for his purpose. The
Bible says, "From one man he made every nation... and he determined the
times set for them and the exact places where they should live.” Nothing in
your life is arbitrary. It's all for a purpose.
Most amazing, God decided how
you would be born. Regardless of the circumstances of your birth or who your
parents are, God had a plan in creating you. It doesn't matter whether your
parents were good, bad, or indifferent. God knew that those two individuals
possessed exactly the right genetic makeup to create the custom "you"
he had in mind. They had the DNA God wanted to make you.
While there are illegitimate
parents, there are no illegitimate children. Many children are unplanned by
their parents, but they are not unplanned by God. God's purpose took into
account human error, and even sin. God never does anything
accidentally, and he never makes mistakes. He has a reason for everything he
creates. Every plant and every animal was planned by God, and every person was
designed with a purpose in mind.
Long before you were conceived by
your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.
God's motive for creating you
was his love. The Bible says, "Long before he laid down earth's
foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his
love."
God was thinking of you even
before he made the world. In fact, that's why he created it! God designed this
planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of his love
and the most valuable of all his creation. The Bible says, "God decided to
give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all
the things he made." This is how much God loves and values you!
God is not haphazard; he
planned it all with great precision. The more physicists, biologists, and other
scientists learn about the universe, the better we understand how it is
uniquely suited for our existence, custom-made with the exact specifications
that make human life possible.
Dr. Michael Denton, senior
research fellow in human molecular genetics at the University of Otago in New
Zealand, has concluded, "All the evidence available in the biological
sciences supports the core proposition ... that the cosmos is a specially
designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a
whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this
central fact." The Bible said the same thing thousands of years earlier:
"God formed the earth.... He did not create it to be empty but formed it
to be inhabited."
Why did God do all this? Why
did he bother to go to all the trouble of creating a universe for us? Because
he is a God of love. This kind of love is difficult to fathom, but it's
fundamentally reliable. You were created as a special object of God's love! God
made you so he could love you. This is a truth to build your life on.
The Bible tells us, "God
is love." It doesn't say God has love. He is love! Love is the essence of
God's character. There is perfect love in the fellowship of the Trinity, so God
didn't need to create you. He wasn't lonely. But he wanted to make you in order
to express his love. God says, "I have carried you since you were born; I
have taken care of you from your birth. Even when you are old, I will be the
same. Even when your hair has turned gray, I will take care of you. I made you
and will take care of you."
If there was no God, we would
all be "accidents," the result of astronomical random chance in the
universe. You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose
or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope
beyond your brief years here on earth.
But there is a God who made you
for a reason, and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and
purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. The Message
paraphrase of Romans 12:3 says, "The only accurate way to understand
ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us." This poem by
Russell Kelfer sums it up:
You
are who you are for a reason.
You're
part of an intricate plan.
You're
a precious and perfect unique design,
Called
God's special woman or man.
You
look like you look for a reason.
Our
God made no mistake.
He
knit you together within the womb,
You're
just what he wanted to make.
The
parents you had were the ones he chose,
And
no matter how you may feel,
They
were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,
And
they bear the Master's seal.
No,
that trauma you faced was not easy.
And
God wept that it hurt you so;
But
it was allowed to shape your heart
So
that into his likeness you'd grow.
You
are who you are for a reason,
You've
been formed by the Master's rod.
You
are who you are, beloved, because there is a God!"
THINKING ABOUT MY PURPOSE
Point
to Ponder: I am not an accident.
Verse
to Remember: "I am your Creator. You were in my care
even before you were born." Isaiah 44:2 (CEV)
Question
to Consider: I know that God uniquely created me. What
areas of my personality, background, and physical appearance am I struggling to
accept?
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