You have heard it and so have I. People speak that God has a plan for each of us. I sure want to accept that fact. Wouldn't it be great to know that God has a plan worked out for us and all we do is live and let Him work out that plan? Let's be honest with this. If God has a specific plan for every step of our lives why hasn't He given us more direction to work with that fact?
Things get a little muddled and complicated if we start believing that God has an exhaustive plan for our lives as if He has this graph on each person with our lives mapped out step by step. The Lord wants us to go this direction and off we take in another. How are we to really know what the Lord has planned in our lives? When we take off on our own, what does that do with the graph?
I do not know of any Scriptural text that tells us the Lord has such a plan for our lives. I don't know if people just want to believe that for the messes they find themselves in or not but sometimes we are being told things that simply do not line up with Scripture. I do know this, the Lord God does care about the decisions we make. Our Lord's main concern is the kind of decision we make rather than what decisions we make!
"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve." (Col. 3:23-24) "Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (I Cor. 10:31)
Verses like the above point out one message. Our decisions should always be affected by our relationship with the Lord! That's not saying that God has our lives mapped out. That is simply saying we do what we do to please Him by making decisions and working that honor Him. It's like walking up to the Lord with a decision and saying, "What we have done we have done with You in mind to please and glorify You!" rather than trying to figure out the blueprint line by line.
We have the freedom to make such choices! The Lord is trying to shape our lives into the image of Jesus and the choices we make has great effect on our lives. We choose with the Lord in mind or we simply don't. It really comes down to that.
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"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve." (Col. 3:23-24)
What a powerful verse and much needed for me to be reminded of. The Truth is written, never changes and is easy to understand.
In a sermon that you preached a few weeks ago you said 3 things keep us from the power of God; guilt, ignorance (of the word of God) and listening to the world. I listened to fellow co-workers who are of the world and I forgot the power of God.
Thank you for reminding me of my purpose, it is God whom I serve, and it is easier to serve God than it is trying to please man.
The word of God is powerful, thank you for being a preacher that sticks with the word.
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