Planned

"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 hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' Acts 17:24-28

Do you realize that your life was planned to be exactly where it is? God determined the times and place where you should live. This point in history is where you should be. It is not like God got it wrong and you should have been born in 1692, not 1962. It is not as though God did not know the family that you where born into and the problems that you would face. We all have the tendency to blame our family and our growing up on why we have not achieved what we think we should have, or are less than we think we should be. God already knew it and hoped that "we would seek him out and reach out for him and find him." The most amazing thing is that God is not far at all. In the Message version of these same verses it says:

"He doesn't play hide-and-seek with us. He's not remote; he's near. We live and move in him, can't get away from him! One of your poets said it well: 'We're the God-created.' Well, if we are the God-created, it doesn't make a lot of sense to think we could hire a sculptor to chisel a god out of stone for us, does it?"

We are created in God's image, we have God's DNA. God is with us, in us and we live and move in God. We cannot get away from God! We just do not notice that God is here. Epictetus, a Greek philosopher and poet wrote:

"You are a distinct portion of the essence of God in yourself. Why, then are you ignorant of your noble birth? Why do you not consider whence you came? You carry God about with you."

Trust God. Trust that even though things are not like you want them, the Creator is only concerned about us seeing him. Trust that God, the one you are birthed out of, is not about the business of hurting his children. Know that your life was planned to be right here, right now and stop telling yourself that God is so far away and things will not work out because of the family your grew up in or the choices you have made. See God. Everything we do is in God. That is why I always say -

Namaste'