PDL - Day 2

Isaiah 44:2 "I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born."

DAY 2 - You are not an accident


this chapter hits me. As the title it selfs says. "YOU are not an accident" It's good that this was discussed in the book. Since this is the most common excuse we have for not finding our life's purpose. We think that we are not intended to be here. That you were a mistake from the very beginning. BUT NOT TO GOD. You may be unplanned by your parents but NOT TO GOD. As Isaiah 44:2 tells us. We were in God's care even before we are born. and the poem by Russell Kelfer sums it up:

You are who you are for a reason.
You're a 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. 

I grew up believing that I am not pretty enough, good enough, important enough -- in short I grew up believing I am not ENOUGH. At an early age, I cried bitter tears asking God why did he create me this way. Though I became less of that as I mature both spiritually and emotionally, the fact that I grew up believing that still remains. But TODAY I finally say, I am done living with the shadow of my yesterday. that TODAY i am to stop believing in the wrong ideas that the enemy had planted on me but instead start looking on to what God has to say about my existence, my life. :)