Good from the Sad

jft4My mother was five weeks pregnant when she miscarried her child. Just a few weeks later, she became pregnant with me. Miscarriage is such a tragic loss, and full of shattered hopes and dreams. However, if she had carried that baby to term, I wouldn’t be here today; I simply wouldn’t exist. That idea always makes my head spin!

I’ve also always felt that God has a real purpose for me or He wouldn’t have placed me on His earth, under the circumstance that another baby had to die in order for me to be born. God created all of us under His circumstances and with amazing potential; in fact, the average human uses only a small percentage of their brain. So many people die without using their minds, and their lives, to the full potential God created them for. I don’t want to be one of those people! I want to live up to my full potential and, when I am on my deathbed, to reflect on my life and know with complete certainty that I did everything I could do for the sake of Christ.

As Christians, we should all have that same feeling because Jesus had to die so that we could live eternally. Do we realize that He is just as real as that precious baby? We owe such a debt of gratitude to God for the chance of eternal life, that we do indeed need to show Him how much we appreciate Him by living the life He wants us to live, and by sharing His love with as many souls as we can.

God created each one of us for a purpose – it’s up to us to live it.

– Anonymous

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