As a follower of Christ, we are supposed to believe we are a miracle, “fearfully and wonderfully made.” You see it on pro-life billboards, teen devotionals, Christian cards and motivational posters.

And maybe, just maybe, you believe it.

But do you live like it?

What you believe about yourself will greatly affect how you live your life.

Perhaps you say you believe you are a miracle, but many of your days are spent more like a robot:

*alarm clock goes off

* methodically perform daily tasks and functions

* attempt to squeeze some purpose in

* collapse and repeat

What if I told you that science concurs with God on at least one thing:

You are a miracle.

Scientists studying the chances of human existence have concluded that the chances of you existing are basically ZERO.

The chances of your dad meeting your mom out of all the other women he came in contact with, making it through dating and committing to a long-term relationship, and for the one right sperm (males have around 525 billion) to connect with the exact egg (women have around 2 million), is PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

But then to take it back throughout your ancestry and have all of those exact sperm and eggs of all your great-great-great grandparents combining to create you is about one in 400 trillion.

 One in 400 trillion!

Dr. Ali Binazir, an author and personal change specialist who studied at Harvard and Cambridge, researched the following illustration that questions the unlikely phenomenon of you:

“Imagine there was one life preserver thrown somewhere in some ocean and there is exactly one turtle in all of these oceans, swimming underwater somewhere.  The probability that you came about and exist today is the same as that turtle sticking its head out of the water – in the middle of that life preserver.  On one try.”

He found that this illustration was pretty close to the actual probability of your existence.

You aren’t here by chance.

God created you.

At this moment in time.

For a purpose.

So let’s stop living like robots, mindlessly surrendering to the pattern of the world.

Everyone surrenders to something, intentionally or unintentionally.

It might be busying yourself in all the activities, events, tasks, and duties. That, my friend, is surrendering to your schedule. That is letting your planner dictate which direction your life will lead, where each day will take you. All of a sudden, you reach retirement, wondering how time slipped through your fingers.

Or perhaps you are living the life somebody with good intentions guided you down, without ever considering the greater plan and calling God had for you. It might be a highly successful path. You may even be helpful to many people. 

But what are the plans You were created for? What was the life God imagined as He “knitted you together in your mother’s womb?” (Psalm 139:13)

When I come to the end of my race, and my body is worn and tired, I want to smile with the sweet satisfaction I ran HIS race He marked out for me. 

YOUR WILL, NOT MINE

So, inevitably, the next question is, “How do I know what God wants of me?”

Paul pleads for us in Romans 12:1 to

“…give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you.  Let them be a living and holy sacrifice – the kind He will find acceptable.  This is truly the way to worship Him.”

 and he warns us about the trap we can so easily fall into in the next verse:

“Don’t copy the behaviors and customs of the world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”

Everyone is always wondering what their purpose is, and Romans 12:1-2 gives us the formula to find out:

* Surrender

*Set yourself apart from the world and its patterns

*Allow God to transform you and your thinking

= Know God’s will.

How many people are willing to do that?

God often asks people to do things that look foolish to the world.

Are we able to truly surrender to His will while the world watches?

The Bible is full of examples of people who chose NOT to surrender to God. Look at Jonah. Saving the people of Ninevah did not fit into his plans. I don’t know about you, but I am not up for sitting in the belly of a big fish. And if God would not have intervened, the people of Ninevah would not have come to know the Lord. Their eternal destiny would have been affected by Jonah thinking he knew better than God.

How many people will be affected if we are not listening to what God has for our lives?

You are here “FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS”  (See Esther chapters 3-4).

I would hate to miss God’s calling on my life because I was unwilling to surrender.  Or because I got caught stuck on the mindless robot cycle.

Maybe you have a good thing going without surrendering to God and you don’t want to mess with it.

But what are you missing?

Craig Groeschel, author of the book, “Weird,” says,

“Normal people allow GOOD things to become the enemy of the BEST things.”

Let’s be done with normal.

Let’s live like the miracle we are and give up the good things for God’s BEST.

Do not let your miraculous moment in history slip away without seeking God for the very reason He planned for you to be on this earth, right now.

YOU, dear friend, have a calling, one that was planned by the Creator of the universe, before He even formed it. Do not let the world or Satan blind you from why He has you here in this moment of time. 

You are no mistake. 

There is ONE YOU, in THIS VERY PLACE, at THIS VERY TIME.

“…I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.”   Ephesians 4:1