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Youth Chaplain’s 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 exist-
ence is not the result of fate, chance, luck, or even hu-
man 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 mys-
tery, 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
Prayerfully,