Tuesday, April 27, 2004
40 Days Of Purpose Day 2
You are not an accident
Long before you were concieved by your parents, you were concieved in the mind of God. Isaiah 44:2a says "I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born." God even decided how you were born. Whether your birth came as a result of wanting children, "unplanned," or raised by a single parent, God knew what His plan was and why you are here. It didn't matter if your parents were good, bad or indifferent. He made you for a reason. Nothing is arbitrary, it is all for a purpose.
The motive for creating you was His love. Ephesians 1:4 says, "Long before He laid down the earth's foundations, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love." No accident there, God is not haphazard or imprecise. Think about how perfect our environment is to live on this Earth. A news report once said that a four degree rise in global temperatures would kill millions of people, through floods, rain and drought, plus melting of the polar ice caps. You can't live anywhere else in the solar system we know, the conditions become unhospitable five miles up in the air and impossible beyond that. We live in a purposeful environment, one that provides for the people of God.
If there was no God, we would all be "accidents," the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. As Rick said in the book, "You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or signifigance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your years on this earth." Many people live their lives like this is the only way there is. But there is a God who made you for a reason, and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning when we make God the reference point of our lives.
Tomorrow: what drives your life.
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Long before you were concieved by your parents, you were concieved in the mind of God. Isaiah 44:2a says "I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born." God even decided how you were born. Whether your birth came as a result of wanting children, "unplanned," or raised by a single parent, God knew what His plan was and why you are here. It didn't matter if your parents were good, bad or indifferent. He made you for a reason. Nothing is arbitrary, it is all for a purpose.
The motive for creating you was His love. Ephesians 1:4 says, "Long before He laid down the earth's foundations, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love." No accident there, God is not haphazard or imprecise. Think about how perfect our environment is to live on this Earth. A news report once said that a four degree rise in global temperatures would kill millions of people, through floods, rain and drought, plus melting of the polar ice caps. You can't live anywhere else in the solar system we know, the conditions become unhospitable five miles up in the air and impossible beyond that. We live in a purposeful environment, one that provides for the people of God.
If there was no God, we would all be "accidents," the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. As Rick said in the book, "You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or signifigance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your years on this earth." Many people live their lives like this is the only way there is. But there is a God who made you for a reason, and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning when we make God the reference point of our lives.
Tomorrow: what drives your life.
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