LIVING FOR THE PURPOSE OF GOD (1)

TEXTS: Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:11

When you hear others say they want to seek God’s face and leading over a matter, how do you react? The truth is that there are people who doubt if God ever speaks or tells people what to do. Others would prefer to make their choices no matter what God wants. For some, they feel God’s choices are usually “unattractive” and “unpromising”.

When your life is just about what you want, then you are living for the flesh, and “they that are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:8). When you live for yourself, you live for small. When you live for yourself you live for the now. The life that will count in the end and in eternity is the life lived for God.

There are people who want God to use them, bless them, raise them, but they can never allow God choose for them. If God cannot choose for you, how then do you want Him to choose you? It is not possible to fulfil God’s purpose with your plans intact. God did not create you to come and live out what your family, friends, environment, and flesh tell you. There was a need, and God brought you to life to come and meet that need, fulfilling His purpose and not your purpose.

Let us see Jeremiah; he began living as a priest (Jeremiah 1:1) until God told him he (Jeremiah) was created and ordained to be a prophet (and not a priest): “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). And that was a defining moment for Jeremiah, his path changed as he followed God’s ways and not his own.

There are many people in wrong places in life today. Many missed it many years ago. Yet there are people who are entering the future with no idea of what God wants them to do there; all they are saddled with are what they have pictured in their minds to do. Life is not about you, it is about God, and until you start to live it for God, it would be accounted as waste in the end.

On SPIRIT’S SWORD DEVOTIONAL, we commence a series on (divine) purpose. You cannot afford not to follow this series as God will raise up eternal issues with us. If Jesus came and did God’s purpose and not His, then we are inexcusable should we live any life outside God’s purpose. I pray that God will redefine our pursuits in life and grind us in the mill of His will…it is only by this that we can finish and finish well. Amen.