I’ve often heard people ask when considering their own personal issues, that they feel are a part of who they are, if God can make a mistake? They wonder how they could possibly have an issue within themselves that is not Godly, while knowing that the Lord formed them in their mother’s womb. They question how God could be involved in their creation, but they have issues with their own bodies that are not Godly. It could be a desire for drugs (including alcohol and cigarettes), sex (homosexual, heterosexual fornication and/or adultery), violent nature or whatever else.

The true answer to this question evades many, but I pray someone reads this and learns the truth. Let’s start with the fact God forms life in the womb. Regardless of the means of conception, once conceived God has his hands in the creation process. God is the creator of all and forms all new human life himself.

God Formed Each Of Us In The Womb

David recognized this when he said:

The prophet Isaiah said:

Jeremiah was told by God about his being formed and even sanctified in the womb:

If the baby was conceived in fornication, adultery or rape, God does not approve of the sinful act, but forms the life just the same. He does not inspire the sin, but may still grant a life. God is the creator and he creates life based on his plan for the given life. This is why stopping the sin of baby murdering (abortion) is so important. Man should not condone the murder of innocent children in the womb. They are creations of God the Father. They are innocent and so we have no cause to try and prevent their being born.

Man Failed God, God Never Fails Man

So how can a perfect God create a life that has an issue? Because we made the choice to make it that way. Since the original sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Man has been out of step with God. God gave man free will. He did not create Earth as a planet to be run by robots. We decided to disobey God on our own. We decided to listen to one who God cast from Heaven for disobedience. God allowed the evil one, Satan to speak to Man and although God told man to follow His (God’s) Word, we made the choice to follow Satan for a moment. This is how we failed God. God allows a means of redemption via salvation in Jesus Christ. God has put this plan in motion to ultimately do 2 things. One is to shame Satan aka Lucifer, showing Satan that Jesus is Lord and Satan erred in trying to put himself above God. Second is to establish a kingdom that includes only those who made the choice to follow God when given the option of Jesus (life) and Satan (death).

So man failed God and because of that, although we are given a means of salvation we must endure the issues associated with our own failure. Our sin and continued sins cause issues for generations throughout the existence of mankind. I think Paul best describes this when he says.

Because of Man’s failure we invoked a sin nature in our flesh. God’s rules over man mean that he will grant to us based on our own actions. So when he creates new life, that new life embodies the fleshly desires of Man. Desires that are sinful, desires that are not right. Blame Adam and Eve, but we are no better than them. We know the truth just as they did and still allow temptation to sometimes get the best of us too. So we all have desires within us that are of the flesh, sinful and not right. We broke the relationship with God, and we should be eternally thankful that God did not destroy us on the spot for failing him.

God Has Given Man the Truth, Now it’s Man’s Job to Fight the Good Fight!

After Paul explained how man reaps what he sows, he mentioned something else.

As Paul best explained, we must keep up the fight to do what is right. We must always continue to fight the sinful nature within our flesh. We must strive to do things the way the Lord commanded. Even if we feel that we want to do something that is out of the will of the Lord, we must fight that feeling. If we have a desire to do something that is out of the will of the Lord we must fight that desire. That means drugs, sex out of wedlock which includes both gay and straight sex since Jesus commands that only one man and one woman marry to make one flesh, adultery, lust of the eye, mean spiritedness, gluttony and the list goes on. Anything out of the will of God is sin. So we must continue the fight.

No Man Wins The Fight Via Suicide

Some people hate the sinful nature within themselves so much that they allow anger to consume them and take their own lives. This does not win the fight. It allows sin to have won and the fight ends there for that person. To win the fight, we must each continue the battle within ourselves to do what is right. To live our lives as Jesus, the Word of God commands. Jesus is the Word who came in flesh to sacrifice himself for the sins of man. Suicide is the sin of murder against one’s self. God brings life, Satan brings death. So to give into the temptation to kill one’s self is to give Satan a victory. We must live and continue to resist him and any temptations within us that are not like God. We are not perfect and striving towards perfection. But we must never give up the fight!

As a brother in Christ once told me, it’s not how you start this race, but how you finish.