We often
say that God has a plan for our lives but then act as through we don’t know
what it is and we are not convinced that God wants to show us.
We sometime
excuse our ignorance by making the assumption that Gods plans for us are totally secret
and so we end up believing that absolutely everything that happens to us must be Gods will. This belief means we become passive, just waiting for the next thing to come along. Unfortunately
when what happens to us isn't what we want , we can become cynical blaming God
when our lives don’t seem to be amounting to much.
But how can
this be when...
Jesus
promised us life in all its fullness which begins now and not in the future and according to Jeremiah
29 v11 God has a plan to prosper us, not to harm us and he wants to give us hope
and a future. If God is
true and I believe He is then this is what is on offer and so we can receive it and walk in the good of
it, however like all of Gods gifts a faith response is required to activate the
reality of the promise.
The gift
needs to be unwrapped, the yoke needs to be taken on, the cross needs to be
taken up and carried and the vision needs to be written down so that we can run with it.
YES God has
provided everything we need for life and godliness but He also requires us to
make every effort to add to our faith the daily intentional habits of, aiming for moral excellence, acquiring Knowledge,
disciplining of self, a dogged
perseverance, godly attitudes, promoting positive relationships and living
out of a loving heart attitude.
In other
words out life purpose is bound up in our relationship with God through Jesus BUT
to some extent at least depends on us making every effort to make the most of
what God has already given to us in order to make it count in our lives and the
lives of those whom we impact.
So.....we have
the resources but what are we doing with them?
When you wake
up each morning what is your intention, your plan, your purpose that you will
live for in order to make the most of what God has put in you?
Ask God
today if you don’t already know ....What am I made for?
Start living with intention today!
2 comments:
I think you wrote this for me. i am at a time where I am not sure what to do so I doubt if I have a purpose at all as nothing seems to work. Thank you for the encouragement and God bless your work.
Hi glad that I could help.
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