Was it God’s will that Jim’s mother got pregnant when she was 19? Was it God’s will that Jim then fathered a child at 17? God wills that we save sex for marriage. But God also wills that sex results in children, even difficult, unplanned pregnancies.
Now what? Now Grace!
Grace is God stepping “outside” His rules by making the baby such a blessing to the parents that they cannot imagine their lives without that child. THAT is God’s grace: the supernatural transformation of mistakes into miracles. Such amazing grace!
Let’s take it to a deeper level. Does God see unplanned children as—if you’ll pardon the harsh, trendy term— “Oops Babies”? That is, He had a plan for the parents, but they messed up, so the children are doomed to be mistakes forever, a living monument to their parents’ sin?
Will children conceived out of wedlock forever be “damaged goods” because God had other plans? No! God’s grace is bigger than that.
No matter who you are, God planned you before He made the world. It may never make sense to us—but God’s grace is beyond our comprehension.
“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His Will…. He lavished His grace on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will…. In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose…. You were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise” Ephesians 1:4-13.
He chose you BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. He knew you before Creation. He loved you. He chose you. He predestined you to be adopted into His family—heir to a great inheritance—through Christ. He lavished grace on you. He has plans for you and gives you the Holy Spirit as a reminder that—
YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT.
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