*Day 7: Someone who has made your life worth living for.*

     I have a side note written in the margins of my Bible that I immediately thought of when I read today's topic. It says, "He is worth living for, because I am worth dying for." My answer for today is that Jesus Christ is someone who has brought meaning and purpose to my life. He is the reason I live. He is the one who brings worth to my life. Without Him, I am nothing.
      I don't always know what direction my life is heading. I don't always know why certain things have happened. And I certainly don't have all the answers. But the one thing I do know is that no matter what happens in my life, I have someone who loves me and wants the best for me. In fact, He loves me more than I can fathom. Who else would give up their spot in Heaven, take on the chains of human flesh, be tempted with a sinful nature, spend day after day with sick, poor sinners, and eventually be murdered a criminal's death all so I can be with them in heaven one day. It is so humbling to realize that someone literally sacrificed His physical life so He could be with me forever.
     It is also mind-blowing to think that when it came time to create me, God spent intimate time designing every characteristic of who I am. I wasn't made from random particles bumping into each other and by chance I am human. He thought about who I would be. He thought about the name my parents would give me. He thought about what I would look like. He thought about what kind of child I would be growing up. He thought about the kind of student I would be. He thought about the kind of friend I would be. And he decided how little ol' me would fit into His masterpiece He is creating - His Kingdom. I like to think that He is painting a wonderful portrait of His Kingdom, and we are the tools he uses. And when he made me, he thought about what kind of tool I would be, and what part of His portrait He would use me to paint. He knew my thought processes. He knew the different things that would happen in my life to shape me into the person I would become. All of these things He spent time thinking about as he carefully shaped me with His own hands and as He breathed life into me, leaving His fingerprints and DNA on me.
     I may not know what else is to come in my life. But I know that there are so many big things in store, and that I have a wonderful life because my God, my Father, my Creator has laid out some wonderful blueprints for me life. And I have an amazing future in heaven one day because my Jesus, my Savior, my Lord sacrificed His all so I could have it all.
     I couldn't ask for things to be any different. I am truly blessed.