EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
SUNDAY JULY 09, 2023.
SUBJECT: DISCOVER GOD’S PURPOSE IN LIFE FOR YOU!
Memory verse: “O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps." (Jeremiah 10 vs 23.)
READ: Psalm 139 vs 15 - 18:
139:15: My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
139:16: Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
139:17: How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
139:18: If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
INTIMATION:
God created all things for His specific and specialized purposes. These specific purposes are His thoughts for each and everything He created. God has His reasons (known to Him alone) for creating you a female or male, a black or white, English, French or African, short or tall, and even, the reason of creating you at that time in history. He has His reasons for creating the animate and inanimate objects. According to Scriptures, God’s purpose for creating you is predetermined even before you were formed in your mother’s womb. Your days, as willed by God, and the details of your life, according to His thoughts and purposes, are already written in His book.
God is absolutely organized, and never does anything accidentally. When you consider the complex web of the world structures; the galaxies and all other creations coexisting without interference with each other, you will acknowledge the mightiness and uniqueness of His wisdom. He never makes mistakes. He has a reason for everything He created, and are designed with specific purposes in His mind. Therefore, to lead a purposeful life is to live in accordance with your God’s predetermined purposes for you.
How then do we find out our God ordained purposes in life? It’s only by going back to the Creator and enquiring from Him. God gave man specific mandates after creation to, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” (Genesis 1 vs 28). God has given us the mandate to be productive, reproduce in large numbers, keep refilling the earth, overcome and bring it into submission, and have sovereign rulership over all things that move upon the earth. Within this sphere of authority given to man, are specific responsibilities to us individually, and collectively.
God has ordained everyone for specific purposes, and consequently, equipped everyone with the necessary powers, skills and talents to serve Him accordingly. Therefore, for a purposeful living, in line with the Will of God, we must be guided by Him who created all things, prearranged, and preordained them to serve His predetermined purposes. To effectively access the information requires our fellowship with Him; total obedience and commitment to Him and His laws; being guided by Him in all our ways. And only in so doing can anyone be assured of receiving a good access to haven and walking in line with God’s preordained purposes for you.
God wants to help you carry out His Will for you. He allows us participate with Him in carrying out His will. Your task is to give your best effort in the work that needs to be done. It’s for this reason He sent us an Helper—the Holy Spirit who counsels, comforts, intercedes, advocates, strengthens, stands-by, encourages, and empowers us at all times if we turn to God and obediently do His bidding.
Apart from Jesus Christ, none has served out 100% of God’s purposes for them in their lives. God had series of disappointments from His trusted servants, who grossly failed Him one way or the other in the process of achieving His purposes for them. Great multitude of people have gone through life not serving their God’s ordained purposes at all, and many are still going in such direction, and many will eventually be gone that way. Many scratched the surface, and are gone.
The question now is, “Do you know your purpose in life?” “How far and how well have you served your purpose?” The ultimate assessment of how well we have done is with God, and that will be at the appointed day of judgement! But before that day, in your honest and sincere reflection into your life, where do you categorize yourself as to belong? It’s a self-assessment that requires an urgent answer. The time is short, and the time to make amends is now!
Prayer: Abba Father, without You I am nothing, and can do nothing to serve Your preordained purpose in life for me. Show me the path of life for me that I may walk in it, and obtain Your approval for the crown of life—eternal life with You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed. Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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