Have you ever wished that you could change something about yourself?

Maybe your height or hair color or your intelligence or athletic ability?

This is something all of us struggle with at some point in time.

And Dr. Kathy Cook joins us today to share a really unique perspective on how you can appreciate your unique God-given qualities.

Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller.

John, we're celebrating the sanctity of human life throughout the month of January,

and today we're highlighting the fact that our Creator God has a purpose for every life.

Dr. Kathy opened her message quoting Genesis chapter one, which says

God created man in his own image. She pointed out that God is a personal, intentional creator,

and he doesn't use an assembly line to build his human beings. He deliberately chooses each attribute that he gives us, and that idea

should blow our minds. Oh, it's right. Yeah. Let's go ahead now and hear from Dr. Kathy Cook,

as she spoke to our staff just about a year ago on today's episode of Focus on the Family.

We read in the book of Isaiah that Isaiah understood God's personal intentionality.

In Isaiah chapter 64, verse 8, we read, O Lord, you are our father.

We are all the clay, and you are our potter. We are all the work of your hand.

Say the word all. Everyone you'll ever meet and everyone you'll never meet created by God's hand.

He wanted them and he wanted them made the way that they are.

I picture God, the creator, at the potter's wheel,

and there's this lump of clay.

I think I'll give them a girl this time.

I think I'll give her very long fingers

so she can play the piano really well like her mom.

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