Gently He molded YOU, a pinch here a pat there. The Potter lovingly kneaded the special ingredients of YOU. In His mind's eye He already saw YOU in complete formation. Each kneading with His hands lovingly done. Caressing the makings of YOU. You see, YOU were being created in the image of Him, formed in God's image. How excited God must have been over the creation of YOU. He knew YOU would be one of a kind. Lovingly He filled YOU with the breathe of life, floating around in amniotic fluid YOU were surrounded by His Holy Spirit, no matter the situation of how YOU came to be - YOU came to be because He chose YOU to be. YOU were never a mistake. YOU were a plan. A God ordained well formulated plan.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you." (Jeremiah 1:5)
YOU were not a mistake. YOU were not a surprise. No matter your conception - YOU were created in love by God. Oh how proud He must have been as He stood back to see the results of His work in YOU. Watched YOU grow in your mother's womb with joy and expectation and pride and a fatherly love. He took joy in the creation of YOU.
"You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.: (Psalms 139:2-4)
God developed YOU. He knew the day YOU would arrive into the world. Like an expectant Father, He watched as YOU took your first breath. Your entrance a gift to the world. How hard it must have been for God to release YOU into the type of world He did not originally create it to be. Your birth was not into a Garden of Eden type of environment that God had originally planned for YOU to exist in. But into a cursed world full of dangers and temptations and experiences that God originally never intended for YOU to have to face. But knowing that in advance, He put into action the plan of Jesus, a chance for YOU to be reunited through Jesus back to Him. Did He kiss YOU on Your forehead before You were born and whisper into your being that along with all the other gifts He had created in YOU for YOU to discover along the course of your life - He had given YOU the gift of free will. Oh how hard that gift must have been for God to give each one of us... Free will... To choose Him or to deny Him. He has loved YOU since He created YOU and in that love given YOU the choice as to whether or not YOU in turn will choose, in the course of your life to love Him in return.
"In the same way, I tell you, joy breaks out in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who changes both heart and life.” (Luke 15:10)
It is not easy for a parent to allow their child to journey on their own, knowing fully well the dangers they may encounter along the way... But your Heavenly Father allows certain things to come into your life that will give YOU the opportunity and the knowledge that YOU need Him. As long as YOU have breathe in your body - breathe that He originally put within YOU, He gives YOU the chance to recognize Him for who He is. He is your Father. He created YOU, He loves YOU, He believes in YOU and the only thing that He wants is for YOU to love and believe in Him.
"Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him." (Psalms 34:8)
There are no words to be able to describe that no matter what YOU go through in life, what comes your way - the absolute joy and knowledge that God is with YOU. He has been since your creation. Even during the times when YOU have been at your lowest moments and those times when you have felt the pain of loneliness. YOU are not alone. You are His precious child - even if YOU don't recognize it, it doesn't change the fact that the One who formed and created YOU loves you beyond any adequate words I could write.
Deep within your being - is a part of YOU that He reserved to be filled with Him and Him alone. There is a cry that is within your soul that desires to be filled with one thing - HIM. Nothing that YOU try to substitute in that spot will quench the thirst that is as much a part of YOU as the color of your hair, the freckles on your nose, your lopsided grin... There is a part deep within YOU that was made to be filled with a love so amazing, so transforming, so fulfilling that nothing can compare to it. YOU just need to choose Him and see for yourself. YOU see, it is called a "personal relationship." It is between YOU and Him. It has always been just between YOU and Him, YOU just never recognized it.
"But now, this is what the LORD says-- he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine." (Isaiah 43:1)
Quiet yourself for a moment... Listen... If you quiet your mind and listen, YOU will hear. He is summoning YOU. YOU will recognize the sound of His gentle voice - for it is one He spoke over YOU when He formed YOU. Listen - deep within your heart YOU will hear a voice you previously may have drowned out with the business of life. He loves YOU. He always has. Every tear YOU have cried, every disappointment or hurt that has come your way. He has wanted to reach out to YOU and let YOU know that YOU have never been alone. He does not love as the world loves. He does not disappoint as the world disappoints. He longs to show YOU His original plan of YOU. For YOU to love and be loved in return.
Those are the blueprints for the plan of YOU.
"Lord, I hear you - and I choose You this day because long ago, when You created me - You chose me. I love You, I need You, I want You to come into my life and to be my Lord and Savior. I believe You were born, that You died for my sins and that You rose again. I choose You Lord as You chose me before my days even came into existence. I choose to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. Please come into my life and guide me. I love You Lord - and I choose YOU."
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