You Are Not an Accident(Day 02)

Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee…

Isaiah 44:2a

God doesn’t play dice

Albert Einstein

Say it three times "I am not an accident". "I am not an accident". "I am 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 in & Psalm 138:8a, “The LORD will perfect that which concerneth 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 in & Psalm 139:15, “My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.” --
  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 fife in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth and death.
  The Bible says in & Psalm 139:16, “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”  --
  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 in & Acts 17:26, “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.”  --. 
  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 make up create the custom “you” he had in mind. They had the DNA God wanted to make you.
  (Don’t you know that the sperm cell has 23 chromosomes?
  The egg cell has 23 chromosomes.
  That is why these cells must meet to have a complete number of chromosomes that our body cells need that is 46 chromosomes.
  In the center of each cell, lie the necessary characteristics of your parents. )
• God knew the right combination of your body cells. We are not an accident.
  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 in & Eph 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in 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 in & James 1:18, “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”  --.
  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 in & Isaiah 45:18: “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else..”  --
  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 in & I John 4:8, “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”  --.    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 in & Isaiah 46:3-4, “Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.”  --. 
  If there was no God:

1. We would all be “accidents,” the result of astronomical random chance in the universe.
2. You could stop attending this series of messages, because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance.
3. 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, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”

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!

DAY TWO

THINKING ABOUT MY PURPOSE

Point to Ponder: I am not an accident.

Verse to Remember: “Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.” & Isaiah 44:2

Question to Consider: Knowing that God uniquely created me, what areas of my personality, background, and physical appearance am I struggling to accept?