All the days ordained for me were written
in your book before one of them came to be.
—Psalm 139:16
Albert Einstein said, “Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.”
Einstein was right about the “short stay,” but wrong about not knowing the “whys and the wherefore.”
God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart” (Jer 1:5). Paul said, “[God] set me apart from my mother’s womb” (Gal 1:15).
You are not an unplanned whim. Whether you are raising children, engaged in a career, or limping into old age, you are living in God’s whys and wherefore for your unique life.
“The two most important days in your life,” said Mark Twain, “are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Be faithful to the why and wherefore.