Day 2: You Are Not an Accident

Day:2 You Are Not an Accident

I believe that is God's guidance that I'm still reading this book. Most book I'd probably get bored on the second day. Well, this books seems to interest me a lot.

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"I am your creator. You were in my care even before you were born."
Isaiah 44:2a

Our birth here was no mistake or mishap. Even if our parents did not plan us, but God did. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that we are breathing at this moment. We are alive because God created us.

"God doesn't play dice."
Albert Einstein

"The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me"
Psalm 138:8a

God prescribed every single detail of our body. He did not simply put us together or we might be looking the same. He custom-made our body just the way he wanted it.

"You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You now exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something."
Psalm 139:15

From the verse we can see he knows us well because he created us in detail. We are not created without any purpose, God created us with a purpose for him. He even planned what purpose to place in us before he created us.

He even decided our beginning and the end on earth. He planned the exact date and time of our birth and even our death on earth.

"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

Where we are, where we live, who is our parents, our nationality, our race, where we study was all included in God's plan. He planned all these for a purpose. No detail was left to chance.

"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

He made all these just for one thing- his purpose.

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. He never does anything accidentally. He has reason for everything he creates.

Know what is God's motive for creating us? It was his love that is so great.

"Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love."
Ephesians 1:4a

Here it is clearly written that God already been thinking about our existence even before the world was created. Well, that in fact why he created it. He created this planet's environment just to be suitable for us to live in. We are the focus of his love and most valuable of all his creation.

"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

It is how wonderful that God planned all with such great precision. It can be seen how earth is made to suite us.

"God formed the earth.... He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited."
Isaiah 45:18

Maybe some of us are wondering: why did God care to go though all the trouble of creating a universe for us? This is because he is a God of love. This is the love which is difficult to fathom, but it's fundamentally reliable. We were created as a special object of God's love. He made us so that he can love us and this is a truth to build your life on.

"God is love."
1 John 4:8

Its not God has love. He is love. Love is the essence of God's character. He loves you no matter who you are and no matter what. God created us not because he was lonely but is because he wanted to express his love.

"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 and life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, no hope beyond your brief years here on earth.
But there is a God who make us for a reason, and our life has profound meaning. We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Here is a 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 us a God!
Russell Kelfer