Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and
your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may
not have planned you, but that doesn’t mean
God didn’t plan you. He works even through
human error and failings, and he was not
surprised by your birth; in fact, he expected it.
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 [God]
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. 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 does not mean that God
causes or condones sin or evil—he does not—
but it does mean God is able to redeem any and
all situations and use them for his own good.
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. Every
plant and every animal was planned by God for
a purpose, and every person was designed with
a purpose in mind, too. God’s motive for
creating you is 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. Now God is perfect and
complete in himself, so he 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.”18
If there were no God, we would all be
“accidents,” the result of astronomical random
chance in the universe. You could stop reading
this right now, because life would have no
purpose or significance. There would be no
right or wrong, no good or evil, and no hope
beyond your brief years on earth. Life would
be a meaningless existence, and death would
be the end. 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 only accurate way to understand
ourselves is by what God is and by what he does
for us.”
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
What events or experiences in your life
have “hinted” or suggested that maybe
you were created for a specific purpose?
Have you ever really felt God’s deep
love for you personally?
How would your life change if you
began to live each day confident that
God loves you deeply and has a purpose
for your life?
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