"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" - Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV). 

When Moses was born he had been created for a purpose- to liberate the Israelites from the bondage they suffered then lost in Egypt. Yet there was an enemy who wanted to steal that purpose. There was a purge against Hebrew boys, so his mother, "hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch.Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile" (Exodus 2:3-4).

Later, down the stream, Pharaoh's daughter saw the concealed baby, lifted him out of the basket and turning to her maid said, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water" (vv 9-10).

Moses is just one of countless other cases we find of one created for a purpose yet the enemy wanted to thwart it. Joseph's brothers sought to kill him yet he ended up rescuing them (Genesis 37). Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus only for his plot to fall apart when the the three wise men were led on a different route (Mathew 2:1-8). God saved all and others to carry out His purpose.

As our leading verse today shows no life is without a purpose from the moment of creation. Do you know your purpose in life? Not only that, are you aware from day one that there is an enemy who has since been trying to steal that purpose! But yet you are here, roaring on, full steam. May you find or carry on that purpose, for that is the reason for your creation.

Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, you who created and saved me for a purpose, I pray that I may find and carry it out successfully to your glory, this I pray in Jesus's name!