Have you stopped to
wonder what God might be doing with you?
It is much different, wondering what you might do for God. They seem to be interchangeable...the one is
the other but they aren't. We fuss
greatly over whether or not we have been of use, whether we have made enough of
our opportunities; utilized our talents and resources well. God owns the cattle of the thousand hills and
is the architect of all we see in life; at what point does He fret over the
part we play in His plans? It is an
absurdity to think that God wrings His hands at the waste of time and energy He
has put into us. If the Cross means
anything, it is that God has thoroughly saved us and He did it Himself without
our help. He can raise the dead, build
an army and put together a congregation at any moment He wishes. We are not needed at all to do a single thing
to make sure His work is done. Salvation
is God developed in you, stripping you of Sin and the damage it has done and
recreating your life in its entirety so that you can be in union with Him. At every point, whether you are praying or
preaching or helping someone in need, that work is being carried out in you and
if you join in the rebellion of Adam by rejecting Christ here or there, you
simply make it a miserable process for you and those about you. When Abraham up and left his home and made
his way west and south, he did not know what would come of his trip...he just
was certain God would take him where He wanted him. This life in God is like that. We cannot know just what Christ is doing with
us and how it really is going at any given moment. All we can do and all we are to do is simply
obey the Lord at every turn. As we do
so, we can have confidence that we will arrive at the destination of God's
choice and be who He wants us to be. In
the end, the work will be done whatever it was supposed to be.
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we
will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make
money." Why, you do not even know
what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a
little while and then vanishes. Instead,
you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or
that." James 4:13-15 NIV
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