You Are Not an Accident

"Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee" (Isaiah 44:2a).

"God doesn't play dice."—Albert Einstein

You are not an accident. Earth is not an accident. God designed this planet's environment just so we could live in it. We are the focus of His love and the most valuable of all His creation. The Bible says, "Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures" (James 1:18).

God is not haphazard; He planned it all with great precision. The more physicists, biologists, and other scientists learn about the universe, the better we understand how it is uniquely suited for our existence, custom-made with the exact specifications that make human life possible.

Dr. Michael Denton, senior research fellow in human molecular genetics at the University of Otago in New Zealand, has concluded, "All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition … that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this central fact." [Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe (New York: Free Press, 1998), 389.]

If there was no God, we would all be "accidents," the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your brief years here on Earth.

But there is a God who made you for a reason, and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

(From the book "The Purpose-Driven Life, by Rick Warren)