"I was an accident—my parents didn't plan for me and I've been a burden ever since."
How it sounds in your head: They never talk about being excited when they found out about me. I hear them fight about money and I know I'm expensive. Maybe if I wasn't born, their life would be easier.
"Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them."
-- Psalm 139:16Enemy using family stress and offhand comments to convince him his existence is a mistake instead of a miracle.
He's heard parents argue about finances or say they weren't ready for kids. During puberty changes he feels like a problem to manage, not a person to celebrate.
Ishmael was born from Abraham's failure—a plan B kid that caused family chaos and got kicked out into the desert to die. God heard him crying, opened Hagar's eyes to a well, and made him into a great nation—the 'mistake' became a patriarch.
I REFUSE the lie that I was an accident. IT IS WRITTEN that God's eyes saw me being formed and every day of my life was written in His book before I existed. I am not plan B—I am THE plan. My parents may have been surprised but Heaven threw a party. IT IS WRITTEN that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The BARAK blessing of Abraham is mine through Christ—I am blessed coming in and going out, in the city and in the field. I am wanted by the King of the universe and my birth certificate was signed in eternity.
The Father has been running toward you since before the foundation of the world. While you were still unformed, He was writing love letters about your destiny—not because of your parents' planning but because of HIS.