I wonder what God was thinking
When He created you ......

When I first read these lyrics I have to admit I laughed. I found myself paraphrasing them into a silly question: What was God thinking when He created you? Sounds like something I would have said to my older brother when I was 12 or 13. But the truth is I know exactly what God was thinking when He created you. He was thinking thoughts of love.

"Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations'" (Jeremiah 1:4-5, NKJV).

Now, you may say, " these were words to a prophet. I am not a prophet." But God knew you before you were born. Before you existed in this world, you existed in His heart.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men" (John 1:1-4, NKJV).

"For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said" (Acts 17:28, NKJV).

The bottom line is that God knows you. He knows all about you. Your arrival on planet earth did not surprise Him. He is the source of all life and you are His creation. But because we live in a fallen world that has been contaminated by sin, we have to be born again. We have to call out to the Lord, the source of our life, and ask Him to save us from our failures and sustain us each day.

The song "When God Made You," is a wedding song. But the truth is that God did not make you just to please another human being. He made you because it pleased Him. And He gives us the privilege and responsibility to love each other.

When God made you He did some of His best work. Think about that today. Open His Book and read about the beginnings—the beginning of the earth (Genesis 1), the beginning of man (Genesis 2) and the beginning of our new life in Him (John 3). When He made you He was thinking of how much He loved you, and He has not stopped thinking about you ever since. So, what are you thinking about today? Take a minute and think about what God was thinking about when He made you. Think about His love.!