YOUR GOD GIVEN ABILITIES FOR HIS PURPOSE!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY JULY 13, 2022.

SUBJECT: USE YOUR GOD GIVEN ABILITIES FOR HIS PURPOSE! 

Memory verse: "He fashions their hearts individually; He considers all their works." (Psalm 33 vs 15.)

READ: Second Corinthians 5 vs 9; Ephesians 1 vs 11:

Second Corinthians 5:9: Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

Ephesians 1:11: In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His Will.

INTIMATION:

God created you to serve His purpose, and gave you the especial talents and abilities to assist you serve His purpose. It is not for you, but for Him. After creating you, God was pleased with everything He made, including you, because they were very good. 

God’s purpose for people is not an afterthought; it was settled before the foundation of the world. People are to serve and honor God, and He has gifted us for such; our talents, gifts, and abilities are to be used to serve and honor Him. Therefore, if you believe in Christ, you can rejoice in the fact that God has always known you. His love for you and I is eternal. His wisdom and power are supreme. He will guide and protect you until you one day stand in His presence.

God especially enjoys watching you use the talents and abilities He has given you. He intentionally gifted us differently for His purpose and enjoyment. He has made some athletic, some analytical, some extremely strong, some weak, and so on. You may be gifted at mechanics or mathematics or music, or a million other skills. All these abilities can bring a smile to God's face, and glory to Him when properly employed for His purpose.

God has fashioned your intellect. He gave you talents and abilities, and is very mindful how you utilize them. He gave you all that for His purpose, and is very pleased when you give Him glory by utilizing your abilities to actualize His course. We are God's inheritance, and were chosen and appointed for His purpose in advance. He has designed and wired us in accordance with His will ordained from inception. 

Now that God did all these, will it please Him if you don't use those talents and abilities for His purpose? You don't bring glory to or pleasure to Him by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring Him enjoyment by being you. Anytime you reject any part of yourself, you are rejecting God's wisdom and sovereignty in creating you.

The Scripture says in Romans 9 vs 20 - 21,

"But indeed O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the things formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?"

The creator has control over the created object. The created object, therefore, has no right to demand anything from its creator - its very existence depends on Him. God has given you some abilities, and to others some other abilities different from yours. Utilizing the abilities to please God is an act of worship. You can sing, write poems, repair machine, sell a product, write a computer program, do farming, teach, raise a family, preach the gospel, and so on, for the glory of God. 

God especially enjoys watching you use the talents and abilities he has given you. He gives you the empowerment to do so. Keeping this perspective removes any temptation to have pride in personal achievement. Any act of priding yourself in those abilities or talents dishonors God, and therefore sinful.

God looks at the attitude of your heart: Is pleasing Him your deepest desire? In the passage we read in Second Corinthians, the apostle Paul emphasized pleasing God as our utmost goal. When you live in light of eternity, your focus changes from "How much pleasure am I getting out of life?" to "How much pleasure is God getting out of my life?

Will you make pleasing God your life's goal? There is nothing that God won't do for the person totally absorbed with this goal. In Second Corinthians 5 vs 10, the apostle Paul continues, "For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad."

The grace of God in freely given us the gift of salvation, and eternal life, not withstanding, each of us will be judged by Christ. The judgement will reward us for how we have lived. God's gracious gift of salvation does not free us from the requirement for faithful obedience. All Christians must give account for how they have lived.

Prayer: Abba Father, You made and gifted me to serve Your purpose on earth. Give me the grace to use Your gifts to me to serve Your purpose, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!