Youth Chaplain Corner…
Glory be to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - One True God! Amen.
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 2:16
Long before we were conceived by our parents, we were conceived in the eternal mind of God. Our existence is not the result of fate, chance, luck, or even human confidence. It is the outcome of divine intention. Our birth was neither a mistake. Our parents may have planned for us, or perhaps they were surprised by our arrival—but God was not.
We are all a part of His mysterious and sovereign plan all along.
This is why Rick Warren rightly reminds us, “You are not an accident.” We were envisioned in the divine wisdom of God. He ordained every detail of our being. Every feature, every fiber of our bodies, was deliberately designed by the Creator. God did not merely assemble us—He sculpted us. As Psalm 139 echoes: “You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.”
Even the physicist Albert Einstein once remarked, “God does not play dice,” a reflection on the truth that the universe, and our place within it, is not governed by randomness. Behind all things is the divine order of a God whose knowledge is infinite and whose purposes are sure.
God has uniquely customized us according to His infinite wisdom. His knowledge is beyond what the human mind can grasp. Since the mind of God is a holy mystery, we cannot confine it to our limited understanding or define it within the walls of any intellectual framework. His thoughts are higher, His ways are greater, and His purposes are eternal.
So then, let us rest not in our own understanding, but in the divine assurance that we were always in the heart and mind of God.
We are not accidents.
We are not forgotten.
We are not without purpose.
We belong to a God who saw us before time began, who shaped us with care, and who calls us even now to walk in His ways. Let us then live with holy confidence, not in ourselves, but in the One who made us. Let us seek the mind of Christ, and in doing so, step boldly into the life He prepared for us before we even took our first breath.
To Him be glory forever and ever,
JVarghese Achen