You are not an accident!

I Am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born. Isaiah 44:2 Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. You are alive because God wanted to create you. The bible says, "The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me," Nothing in your life is arbitrary. It's all for a purpose. Rick Warren in his book " The Purpose Driven Life" tells us that regardless the circumstance of your birth or who your parents are, God had a plan in creating you. God never does anything accidentally and He never makes mistakes. 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.

In Chapter 3 Warren ask us What drives your life? You can be drive by guilt and allow your past to control your future. We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by your past. He turned a murderer named Moses into a leader and a coward named Gideon into a courageous hero, and He can do amazing things with the rest of your life, too. God specializes in giving people a fresh start. People are driven by resentment and anger. They hold on to hurts and never get over them. Instead of releasing their pain through forgiveness, they rehearse it over and over in their minds. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go. People are driven also by fear. Fear-driven people often miss great opportunities because they're afraid to venture out. Instead they play it safe, avoiding risks and trying to maintain the status quo. Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love. Another people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Self-worth and net-worth are not the same. Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the valuable things in life are not things. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you-your relationship with God.  Many people are driven by the need of approval. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or friends to control their lives. Others are driven by peer pressure, always worried by what others might think. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. Hope comes from having a purpose. Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches or other externals-hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?  Purpose always produce passion. Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life, but what God says. Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

I'm enjoying reading this book. I'm done blogging for my introduction to computer applications class had been a very good experience for me. I start learning to enjoy everything that I do. The key is to have fun. God bless you guys!