Sunday, September 7, 2008

I won the race!

So today I received some knowledge and I was beyond excited to share it with you...

Today I learned some interesting statistics..

#1... during sexual intercourse there are 500,000,000 (500 million) sperm released by the male.

#2... There is only a 5-7 day window (per month) that a woman's egg can conceive a child.

#3... 1 in 100 babies are still born

#4... 1 in 4 babies don't make it due to miscarriage

#5... and 1 in 3 babies are aborted


taking all of this in was amazing for me....why....because I struggle with things everyday and I know that all of you do too. In the situations we struggle with the odds sometimes seem to be impossible. It's as if we are in a race against a milliion others and we can think of so many reasons why we will not win...but...let me tell you something...

according to that first fact....we were at one time in a race, not against a million people, but against 500 million people...and glory to God because we won! That's why we are here now! The odds in that race were 500 million to 1 yet somehow we pulled it off and our very lives are our gold medals. We started out as winners.

When you factor in the other 4 facts that I shared, you can see how the chances of you exsisting are slimmer than any of us could ever fathom...BUT GOD... God made a way for you to exist and live a full and complete life. Had it been at any other minute or even second in time that your parents hooked up you would fail to exist!

God made you a special and a unique individual, God knows your innermost parts, he knows every detail about you. Every gene in your body, ever cell, every muscle or tendon...God knows! He even knows the number of hairs on your head.

"And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" Matthew 10:30"

Think about Adam in the Garden of Eden...all alone, just him and God...he had a true form of originality... Adam was able to name the animals of the earth whatever he wanted. There was no influence from popular people, there was no style or trend that he was following.

It was just him and God...well today God is calling you back to your original, and unique self. Be you! No one else...live life in a fashion that shows only you and God!

I have a popular song entitled, "I am what I am" and in this song I explain that at times everyone turns their back on you. friends, family, even the church...BUT GOD never does.

I am what I am and you are what you are because of God. You were created at a special time, with all of the odds against you. Yet you overcame! You are victorious! and the odds may be against you sometimes on earth but you have won bigger races before, remember that!