Do you believe God made you on purpose? That you weren’t some cosmic accident, but that He made you with you specifically in mind? Sometimes I don’t know which is harder to believe. That evolution – a random happenstance of DNA combinations – accidently developed life and ultimately intelligent life (and eventually even me). Or that the great God who made the universe and all that is in it knows me personally and cared enough to create me, specifically me, with a real purpose in mind.
Since I am a Christ follower, I’m of the “God created me” viewpoint rather than the blind evolution theory. But I still have trouble grasping the fact that God meant to get me when He created the world and the circumstances that brought me life. Seriously, why would the great omnipotent One care about one little human, know my name, and have developed me with a plan and purpose? It’s hard to fathom, hard to accept.
So I have to trust what God’s Word tells me. That I am fearfully and wonderfully made. That He knew me in the womb, before I was born. That Jesus went to the cross, for me personally, not just “me” in the abstract. God’s Word tells us all this and more. So I have to take it on faith, as my relationship with God matures and I come to understand it all better “by and by” as the old hymn says.
But if God knows me and has a purpose for me, I have to think seriously about what that purpose is. Why did He make me? What has He got in mind for me to do? Am I doing it? No wonder this maturing in God is a process, not a quick single step.
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