September 26, 2005

  • The Purpose Driven Life
    Day Two
    You Are Not an Accident


    VERSE TO REMEMBER
    Isaiah 44:2
    "I am your creator. You were in my care even before you where born." (CEV)
    "This is what the Lord, the one made you, says - the one who formed you in the womb and helps you: “Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen!" (NET)


    QUESTION TO CONSIDER
    I know that God uniquely created me. What areas of my personality, background, and physically appearance am I struggling to accept?


    Not only did God create us, but he did so with a purpose (Ps 138:8a). He placed us into specific time periods from birth to death (Ps 139:16), the location of our earthly sojourn (Acts 17:26), he gave us natural talents, and unique personalities (Ps 139:15). His purpose for our lives was planned out so that His will would be accomplished in the lives of all mankind.


    It is awesome to think that my God is using my strengths and weaknesses to mold and shape me for His purposes. With God's perspective on my life the things I struggle with are beginning to seem insignificant. Because they are what make me, me! And what God is using to transform me into His images. Obviously it some of those areas are sinful I need to change my ways, but my mistakes and sin does not throw God in a conniption to fix His plan for my life. He already has compensated for my choices in His great plan for me and those I touch. Yet I need to not use this as an excuse to sin or to not improve myself since everything I do I am obligated as a Christ-Follower to do to the glory of God. The God honoring areas of my life that I  struggling to accept I need to realize that God will and does use this in the body. Even today God took an opportunity to bless me and remind me of a gift He has given me. My brother in Christ gave witness to a gift in me that he and others have seen and that he reminded me I need to exercise for His glory.


    Pray for me that I will learn not to be jealous of what God has given to others as a part of His plan for their use and instead to learn to love who I am in Christ more and more each day.


    Godspeed,
    Wesley

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  • Thinking of an answer for the question....................... But the way I see it the heart of man is desperately wicket and there is no part of it I would accept. I struggle to keep my world from entering the relativistic slip-stream.

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