For this journey you are:
given information about who God is: all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present.
offered forgiveness of sins through Jesus’ payment for sins by His death on the cross.
given a relationship with God, and an identity as a child of God, if you accept Jesus’ payment.
given instructions to, “Go and make disciples of all nations.” (Matt. 28:19-20).
God knows every twist and turn which you will have to make on your own personal journey.
So, God also built you a body which is specially formed to help you on your specific journey.
Some people might look at you and not understand why you were given the body you have.
They may even laugh at you and make fun of you for the ways your body is different from how they think bodies should be.
You might also look in a mirror and think BAD things about your body.
Perhaps you’d rather have a different colored one, a different shaped one, or a different sized one. Maybe God made you a boy but you want to be a girl. Maybe you’d rather be an animal.
You may not understand why God chose to make you the way He did.
But, someday something will happen. Something God knew would happen.
And you will realize that God planned for your body to be the exact one you needed to deal with that situation.
The body you hated will turn out to be the perfect tool for you to use to serve God and to spread the truth of His Gospel.
God made you perfect just as you are.
“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”
“Dear God,
Thank you for making me the way I am. Thank you for giving me the body I need to live out your plan and purpose for my life. Thank you for loving me, for staying by my side, and for helping me during my journey through this life.
In Jesus name,
Amen.”
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
- Psalms 139:13-16 (NIV)
You can download a free printout of this information by going to our “Free Material” Page and clicking on “On a Journey/Designed by God (Kids Booklet)”.
This series of blog posts titled, “Holding on to Reason”, is named after Amanda’s favorite C.S. Lewis quote: “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”