Why Was I Created

It wasn’t random. It wasn’t chance. It wasn’t the roll of some celestial dice or the flip of a coin. Your creation was part of a work of art God has had in mind for all eternity.

I know that’s hard to believe. It seems so vast, immeasurable, and beyond understanding. Mysterious and complex beyond anyone’s ability to grasp into everyday sentences.

If that is true, which I truly believe it is, then why was I created?

I wonder, I pray, I scratch my head and hold the questions up to God.

People send me questions that I in myself don’t have neat, tidy answers. Well, maybe I do, but they probably won’t satisfy or salve a hurting soul.

The recurring answer goes something like this.

We are broken people living in a broken world where broken world decisions and choices are made, but God is in the business of making all things new, so we pray, trust, and hope.

Is that broad enough to envelop your situation?

Does it give you a glimmer of presence in your loneliness?

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