Submitting to God’s Purpose

October 24th, 2011 by JDVaughn Leave a reply »

October 25, 2011

I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some —1 Corinthians 9:22

A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s man or woman of great worth and excellence in the midst of a multitude of meager and worthless things. Never protest by saying, “If only I were somewhere else!” All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. Unless we have the right purpose intellectually in our minds and lovingly in our hearts, we will very quickly be diverted from being useful to God. We are not workers for God by choice. Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have no purpose of God’s almighty grace or His mighty Word in them. Paul’s whole heart, mind, and soul were consumed with the great purpose of what Jesus Christ came to do, and he never lost sight of that one thing. We must continually confront ourselves with one central fact— “. . . Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).

“I chose you . . .” (John 15:16). Keep these words as a wonderful reminder in your theology. It is not that you have gotten God, but that He has gotten you. God is at work bending, breaking, molding, and doing exactly as He chooses. And why is He doing it? He is doing it for only one purpose— that He may be able to say, “This is My man, and this is My woman.” We have to be in God’s hand so that He can place others on the Rock, Jesus Christ, just as He has placed us.

Never choose to be a worker, but once God has placed His call upon you, woe be to you if you “turn aside . . . to the right or the left . . .” (Deuteronomy 28:14). He will do with you what He never did before His call came to you, and He will do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way.

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October 25, 2011

Journal Entry for Today-JDV

Lord, what is my purpose here. Is it to be light of the world, a city on a hill? Why have you called me into the family of God?

And God says…”It is enough for you to know and believe that I have called you for one purpose, and that is to be in a relationship with Me. We made you in our own image so that we could have a relationship with you.  Jesus came as a man and gave himself away… to take away the sins of the world so that we could have a relationship.  You were called for one purpose, and that is to be in relationship with Me;  Every other purpose of and for your life will flow from our relationship. “

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