Currently we’re in a message series I’ve entitled “Created To Do What?” You were created by God with a purpose in mind, you were created with an assignment to carry out. Many people never figure out what God created them to do and they live miserable, unfulfilled lives. Other people have an idea what God created them to do but they’re afraid to do it or they don’t want to do it, so they too live miserable unfulfilled lives. To live a happy, fulfilled life, you have only one option, to do what God created you to do.
This morning some of you may think that it’s too late for you, that you’ve gone off track from God’s plan and you can’t get back on. I want to tell you this morning that it’s never too late to get back onto God’s plan for your life. God can take you from wherever you are and help you to get on track to exactly what you were created to do from this day forward.
Today I want to talk about the question “Why Was I Created As I Am?” Why do I look the way I do? Why do I have the set of abilities and gifts that I have? Why do I live in St Louis and not in China? Why do I like the things I like? Why have I gone through the things that I’ve gone through in life? T]Part of the answer to all those questions is that you were created to help others, you were created to minister. God shaped you in a special way because He has a special task, a special ministry for you.
NIV Isaiah 64:8 O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. God is the potter, you and I are the clay. God has shaped and formed you exactly the way that he wanted, you are the work of His hand. There are many different kinds of pots, each to serve a different function. So too God has created each one of us differently, because He has a different function, a different ministry for each person to fulfill.
Some of you today feel like you have gotten a raw deal in life, that the potter did not know what He was doing when he created you and placed you in your life circumstances. NIV Isaiah 29:16 You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing”? If you as the clay tell the potter that He doesn’t know what He is doing, you will remain miserable. But today, God wants to do something new in your life. He wants you to acknowledge that God created you and He did a good job. God wants you to know deep down in your heart that you were created just as you are to do something special.
To hear more about this topic, listen to my September 3, 2006 message entitled Why Was I Created As I Am?