Building upon the truth of God’s love, there are two more powerful declarations the devil hates to hear.
Declaration No. 2: “God chose me.” As I explore in my book, Silence Satan, second to believing that God is mad at you, the devil wants to convince you that there’s no purpose for you. To help achieve this, he’s infiltrated much of the culture with the idea that we’re all merely products of random chance—accidents of evolution. Add to this the epidemic of fatherlessness, and it’s unsurprising why so many today struggle with depression related to feelings of being unwanted or abandoned. Unfortunately, these feelings are often then related to God. Accordingly, many believe they’re meaningless to God or that He’s forgotten about them too.
If you’ve struggled at all with feeling purposeless, then allow me to inject you with truth. Yes, it may be right that your parents were surprised by your arrival, but you were no surprise to God. God’s words to the prophet Jeremiah reveal that He formed and knew each of us before we were born: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jer. 1:5).
The implications of this are huge. God had you in mind and created you before your parents ever conceived you. Like a potter’s hand to clay, God crafted you with great care—He didn’t overlook a single detail. The color of your eyes and skin, the shape of your nose—it was all meticulously chosen by your heavenly Father.
