You are the result of the attentive, careful, thoughtful, intimate, detailed, creative work of God. Your personality, your sex, your height, your features, are what they are because God made them precisely that way. He made you the way He did because that is the way he wants you to be… If God had wanted you to be basically and creatively different He would have made you differently. Your genes and chromosomes and creaturely distinctives – even the shape of your nose and ears – are what they are by God’s design.
— James Hufstetler (b. 1949), Pastor, Missionar und Autor
Related Bible passage: PSA.139.14
Topics: Meaning & Identity, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: Birthday & Anniversary, Encouragement
James Hufstetler
James Hufstetler (* 1949) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformiert-baptistischer Pastor, Missionar und Autor, der über zwei Jahrzehnte eine Gemeinde in Grand Rapids, Michigan, leitete. Theologisch steht er in der Tradition des historischen Calvinismus und befasste sich in seinen Veröffentlichungen vor allem mit biblischer Gemeindeleitung sowie christlicher Lebensführung. Bibellesern begegnet er heute vor allem durch seelsorgliche Impulse über die Identität des Gläubigen in Christus und das Vertrauen in Gottes schöpferische Fürsorge.
All quotes by James Hufstetler (3)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson