God Knew Me Before I Came to Be
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Acts 17:24-28
God is in Control
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Revelations 21:22-27
The New Jerusalem
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Romans 8:28-30
God Works for the Good in Life
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
When I was younger I used to think I was much in control of things...I thought what I did, where I would work or play, where I chose to be were my decisions...But now I know different...For instance, I did not decide when I was born...I did not choose my gender...I did not have a choice in that...I did not decide in what nation I would be born...God chose that also...God had marked out the appointed time in which I came on earth, and how long I will live...He also marked where I would live...And He has always known the date I would and will die and where I will be buried...I have not known and not been in control of these things...
But as I have gotten older, over time -I know that God's will gets done...For believers, they believe that God is involved in their lives...He takes a personal interest...Believers believe that your life is a story and God is a part of your story...Suffering and mourning although a part of everyone's lives will not defeat believers in God...When we love God, He works to find the good in all things (whether those things are good or are bad) that are done by us and to us, when we try to do His will...Because God is in our lives, He is weaving and involved in each chapter in our Book of Life...And there is comfort in knowing this...