John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Jesus knew why He was born. He knew His mission. He knew the results of His work.

Few of us can say as much. My mother had an opinion of why I was born. I was no accident. I was left feeling that if my father had not been drafted into world war two, I never would have been born. While my mother intended on making me feel special, it did the opposite.

What is my purpose in life if I am nothing more than an accident of history? I didn’t feel special even if I was special in my mother’s eyes or my father’s for that matter. Nothing in how they raised me gave me any sense of purpose.

Many years later, after accepting Christ as my Lord, God intervened in my life with power and purpose. His hand stopped me from being killed by an eighteen wheeler running a stop light. I knew with every fiber of my being that it was God who spared my life.

Why did God spare me when so many others die?

I can only answer that question as a matter of spiritual service. The answer, if any, can only be found in God’s will. Do I know what that will is every moment of the day? No. I am lucky enough at times to see His will enacted and every time it turns out to be what He did, not me.

Some think that we will answer for what we did for Jesus in the end. I believe when that day comes, we will get to see what Jesus did thru us whether we knew it or not.