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You Are Not an
Accident
The Bible tells us, God is love. God made you for a reason, and your life has profound
meaning!
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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!
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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.
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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. God
also planned where you’d be born and where you’d live for His purpose.
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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.
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God’s motive for creating you
was His love. God was thinking of you even before He made the world. In fact,
that’s why He created it! 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.
Rick Warren
“I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you
were born.”
–
Isaiah 44:2a
“God does not 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.” — Psalm 138:8
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.” —
Psalm 139:15
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!” — Psalm 139:16
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.” — Acts 17:26
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.
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.” — Ephesians 1:4
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.” — James 1:18
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.” — Isaiah 45:18
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. (1 John 4:8)
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.”
—
Isaiah 46:3-4
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!
Points 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
Question to Consider: I know that God uniquely created
me. What areas of my personality, background, and physical appearance am I
struggling to accept?
Message to Hear:
www.purposedriven.com/day2
Your Turn
What
is your response to God uniquely making you exactly as He did, with the family
He gave you, the physical traits He gave you, in the place and time He planned
your birth?
Maybe
that brings up a lot of confusion and emotion for you.
Or
maybe, God’s intentionality is deeply encouraging for you.
Come
join the conversation on our blog and tell us! We’d love to hear from you! ~ Devotionals Daily
Excerpted with permission from The Purpose
Driven Life by Rick Warren, copyright Rick Warren.
Rick Warren
As founding pastor of Saddleback Church,
Dr. Rick Warren leads a 30,000 member congregation in California with campuses
in major cities around the world. As a theologian, he has lectured at Oxford,
Cambridge, Harvard, University of Judaism, and dozens of universities and
seminaries. As a global strategist he advises world leaders and has spoken to
the United Nations, US Congress, Davos Economic Forum, TED, Aspen Institute,
and numerous parliaments. Rick has also founded the global P.E.A.C.E. plan, which
Plants churches of reconciliation, Equips leaders, Assists the poor, Cares for
the sick, and Educates the next generation in 196 countries.
https://www.faithgateway.com/you-are-not-an-accident/#.X8TWqHAzbZ4
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