Have you considered that you were born for a specific purpose? Do you feel as though you are fulfilling that purpose? Do you believe others are born for a purpose? Or do you think everything is random with no specific design in mind?
There are many who believe it is purpose that keeps us alive and moving. Purpose energizes us. When we have purpose, we focus and diligently work toward it. Without purpose, we can become depressed, feel worthless, and become lethargic.
Jesus was born for a purpose. We know that before He was born, the angel Gabriel told Mary who He would be. Perhaps Mary didn’t fully grasp what was said, but some two-thousand years later we understand it. Perhaps Mary finally understood after the death, burial, and resurrection. Maybe then all the pieces fell into place.
The prophet Isaiah prophesies of the coming Messiah. He states that He was known by God while still in the womb. Isaiah goes on to prophesy the Messiah would be rejected by His own people and that He would be the light to all the nations. Isaiah was prophesying the Messiah would be the salvation of the Gentiles. The Jewish Rabbis agreed that Isaiah 49 was a prophecy about the Messiah.
Looking at Isaiah’s prophecy from the New Testament, we see how Jesus fulfilled it, and Isaiah prophesied correctly. We can also see that Isaiah was prophesying about all of us, in that God knows us before we are born and that each of us are born for a purpose.
I pray we all seek to understand the prophecies Jesus fulfilled. I pray we review the prophecies of the Old Testament. I pray each one of us knows we are known by God before we are born. Understand prophecy. Jesus fulfilled prophecy. Review the prophecies. You are known by God.
Isaiah 49:1:
Listen to me, O coastlands;
pay attention, you peoples from far away!
The LORD called me before I was born;
while I was in my mother’s womb he named me.
Marty Pressey 