The Sunday News
Successful Solutions, Pastor Limock Shoko
Why Were You Born?
The people I have met who are progressing in life and affecting other people’s lives — people like Dale Carnegie, a tremendous man who has touched many people’s lives, or Robert Schuler, who is ministering to people all over the world to help them improve their self-esteem — all seem to say the same thing: If you feel good about yourself, you will feel good about other people. In other words, only after you see yourself as a worthwhile person can you appreciate others as worthwhile people.
If you feel good about yourself, you will feel good about other people.
That’s a very important insight because many people do not feel good about themselves. They look at themselves and wonder why God made them; or they doubt that anyone can find any good in them. But remember, God sees what others, and we ourselves, can’t see. God looks at us and sees that we are worth feeling good about. We are special to God. We are valuable and important.
God Planned your life
The crowning work of creation came on the sixth day when God created human beings. As He looked around Him, God pronounced His creation to be good. That includes you! God looked at the man and the woman He had made and declared them to be “very good.”
God has a good attitude toward you. He created you in His image and drew you out of Himself. Before you were born, you were in God. Part of His potential has been placed within you.
God is so big He began the beginning (Genesisis 1:1). There could not be a beginning without God, because God got start started. Before the start started, however, God had a finished plan for your life. Your potential is not a trial and error experience. God designed and predetermined you to be a successful story.
Psalm 139 tells us that God planned each of your days before you were even born. Before you were formed, God knew you. He took great care in creating you. No part of your being was made without God’s knowledge and careful concern. God wants each of us. He gives us what no other part of His creation received: His breath of life (Genesis 2:7).
You Are Not a Mistake
Have you ever felt like you were a mistake? Have your parents told you they wished you had never been born? Are you a child whose parents have told you: “I wish you would have died when you were a baby”.
You may have come into this world as a result of rape. Your mother may have hated you in the womb because you reminded her of a man she wished to forget. But the fact that you were conceived is more important than how you were conceived.
People go around dealing with how things happened, but God is simply concerned with the fact that He allowed your conception to happen.
Now when I say allow, I’m talking about the fact that you were conceived. You may be a bastard, conceived out of wedlock.
Being omnipotent, God had the power to prevent your conception. Yet God allowed it because He wanted you to show up. You are here because God wanted you to be born. How you came isn’t important. What matters is that you are here. And if you are here, God created you with care (Psalm 139:13).
You are here because God wanted you to be born.
King David doesn’t describe your mother in Psalm 139 — she may have been an old alcoholic or a drug addict, a bastard or a prostitute. He is concerned with you. He describes how God knit you together in your mother’s womb without describing what that womb was like. The womb in which you were knit together is no longer important. You are important. Your very existence means God wants you to exist. You are somebody special simply because you were born.
God saw you in your mother’s womb when you were a tiny baby — a one-centimeter embryo. He looked into the secret place in your mother’s womb and saw you. From the second your father’s sperm and your mother’s egg joined to form a child, God tenderly created you and watched you grow. God never would have allowed the sperm and the egg to come together if He had not planned for you to be born.
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 (Psalm 139:15-16).
Although some parents feel their baby is a mistake, their thoughts are not true. God planned for that baby to be born. The manner in which the child was conceived may not have been in God’s plan, but the child himself is surely part of God’s plan.
Those of you who were brought up in a nice family with a mother and a father who love you may not understand those who have been put down by their family since the day of their birth. You may not understand how important it is for them to know that they are not mistakes. Be patient with them. Help them to see that God designed them long before they were born! Every child who comes into this world comes as a setup from God. That little boy or girl doesn’t need to arrive to see what is going to happen, because the happening was already set up before he or she came.
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