You Have A PURPOSE. You are not an accident. You were created by God’s design, plans He had made up long before you were ever born.
With no mind, will, or emotions, toothbrushes don’t have to consider the reason for their existence. You and I, however, do have a mind, will, and emotions, and we need to seriously consider why God placed us on earth.
You were saved FROM something FOR something. In a sense, every Christ-follower should have two testimonies. The first should be about how God saved them; the second, about how God is using them.
Heavenly Father did not meet you for the first time on the day you came to Christ. He did not find out who you are when you accepted Him as Savior and Lord. There was no shocking heavenly surprise, “Wow, Mike, just came into my Kingdom! How about that? What am I going to do with him?”
Consider what the following verses reveal about God’s purpose.
- “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 NIV)
- “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:13-16 NIV)
- “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. Lord, Your love is eternal; do not abandon the work of Your hands.” (Psalm 138:8 HCSB)
- “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6 NIV)
- “For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.” (Philippians 2:13 NIV)
- “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.” (John 14:23 NIV)
- “I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.” (John 15:16b NIV )
