What it Took to Make You
The short answer is basically everything in this universe.
Let’s begin with a very famous verse John 3:16. Many in Christian circles can rattle this off from memory.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
This passage talks about the world, but that’s the English word.
The original Greek word is κόσμος.
This is the word Kosmos.
God loved the Cosmos, the entire creation with its stars and galaxies all the way down to every atomic element.
Not as an abstract form of art but because it is all necessary for God to reveal who he truly is.
That’s at least in part why he made you (and yes, the rest of mankind).
You were created to answer a fundamental question about the nature of God.
To begin, you could not exist if you were not preceded by the life cycles of massive stars that created all the elements necessary for your biochemistry to function correctly.
You could not be created unless and until the world was first set in its perfect orbit to permit the right temperature, atmosphere, and amount of water.
To exist God first needed the right balance of plants and trees and other living animals all the way down to bacteria and viruses in place and operational.
The entire Cosmos as we have it right now was necessary for you to live and operate.
This means God had to create electromagnetic energy, gravity, thermodynamics, along with strong and weak nuclear forces. And all of this was created to operate within time.
God is outside of all of this.
He sees the end from before it’s beginning and he is present in all of it.
This means he is as present with you as he is with billions of other people all at the same time and throughout time.
No one who has ever lived has been forgotten.
And I could go on.
You are no accident.
And you are more than all of this physical stuff because you are the creature within and linked this entire universe in order to function with the capacity to understand.
You are imprinted in some mysterious way with God’s image.
Without this level of understanding the choices you have been given to make to follow or reject God could not exist.
Which brings us back to the last part of the single verse we began with.
…that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For this verse to be true it means that this Cosmos as it exists, once it has satisfied God’s objective, will end.
Of course there is so much more I could present to show this love God has for you but let me just give you one more verse. Feel free to expand your reading, research, and prayers from here.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Revelation 21:1 (ESV)
This Cosmos will be replaced. The laws governing this one will no longer need to be in operation.
Just understand, you are no afterthought.
Your life and what you do matters and there is a cloud of witnesses cheering you on.
Now go take on the day.
Have courage.
If you know Jesus, you have nothing to fear.
The best is yet to come.