Do you ever feel pointless? Do ever feel so overlooked or ignored that you might as well be a ghost? Have you ever felt like an inconvenient accident - as if no one meant for you to be here, but now you’re here and taking up space? I know I’ve felt that way before and it sucks. It sucks to think that you don’t really fit and no one wanted you or planned for you. Here’s the thing, though: It’s not actually true. I know that you probably won’t believe what you’re about to read, but go ahead and read it anyway and at least leave room in your head for the possibility that it could be true. Ready? Okay, here we go: All of history was orchestrated and planned around you. Every single major event in the human story went down the way it did with you in mind. When you read the Old Testament, you find that God was always planning on sending Jesus. In fact, tons of the details about that first Christmas were already foretold hundreds and hundreds of years before they came to be, and lots of those details involved the political maneuverings of the most powerful civilizations in history. God moved the pieces around the chessboard to bring Jesus into our world on that first Christmas. All of history was being fine-tuned for the great Hero of Heaven to burst onto the scene. It was always going to be this way. 1 Peter chapter 1 says, “He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.” In other words, that first Christmas was actually all about you. He came for you.
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