Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. You parents may not have planned you, but that doesn't mean God didn't plan you. He works even through human errors and failings, and he was not surprised by your birth, in fact he expected it. It is not by fate, chance or coincidence that you are here right now. You are alive because God wants to create you! "The Lord will fulfil his purpose for me." Psalm 138:8. God designed every detail of your body. He deliberately chose your race, the colour of your skin, your hair, and every other feature. He also determined the natural talents you would have and the uniqueness of your personality. "God, you know me inside 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 will live. Your whole life was planned in advance, "You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe." 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. Nothing in your life is arbitrary, it's all for a purpose. Most amazingly, God decided how you would be born. Regardless of the circumstances of your birth or who your parents are, God has a plan in creating you. He knew the two individuals who had exactly the right genetics to create the customised you that he wanted for you. There may be illegitimate parents but there are no illegitimate children! Some children may be unplanned by their parents, but they are not unplanned by God. God's purposes take into account human mistakes, even sin. This doesn't mean that God causes or condones sin or evil, he doesn't, but it does mean that God is able to redeem all situations and use them for his own good if he so wishes. So regardless of the circumstances of your birth, you can celebrate the fact that God created you to be YOU! God never does anything accidentally and he never makes mistakes. He has a reason for everything he creates. God's motive for creating you is love. "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, "God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the important of all the things he made." James 1:18. God is not haphazard, he planned it all with great precision and the more 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. So why did God do all this? Why did he bother to go to all the trouble of creating a universe for us? The answer is simple: He is a God of love and he made you so that he could love you! This is the foundation that you need to build your life upon.
The Bible tells us, "God is love" 1 John 4:8. It does not say God has love. He is love. Love is the essence of God's character and he wanted to create you so that he could express his love, "I will take care of you. I made you and will take care of you." Isaiah 46:4. If there was no God we would not be here, it's as simple as that. But, there is a God, who made you for a reason, and your life has profound meaning. We only discover that meaning and purpose when we make God the reference point of our lives, "The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us." Romans 12:3.
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