God's Plan For Me
Thursday June 19, 2014
Lord … You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (Psalm 139:13-14 NLT)
We lack confidence when we are unsure of who we are or where we fit in society in general. The first step in developing confidence is acknowledging that God is our creator and each one of us is individually made with special qualities. As members of the human family, we are extraordinarily gifted because we are made in the image of an awesome God. God sees before He creates and, in His foreknowledge of us, He created each of us as the unique person that we are. He also equipped us with the potential to fulfill the plan He has for our lives. There is nothing haphazard in anything that God does. He has established a plan for us, the inhabitants of time, and is at work fulfilling that plan for each of us. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ (Acts 17:26-28 NIV)
God has given gifts to everyone; no one has been left out. The gifts He gives are not solely for our own benefit but purposely for the good of others. As believers in Jesus we are to eagerly participate in what God is doing. When we first seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness then everything that is needed to fulfill God’s plan for our lives will be provided. God promises to help us; He affirms us in what He has given us to do. Are you and I willing to step forward, confident in who God says we are? Are we willing to follow His ways and the plan He has for each of us. Have we resolved to “PUT OFF” the old pessimistic self and “PUT ON” the new confident self who is created in God’s likeness?
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10 NLT)
Are you willing to allow God to guide and direct your life? If we submit to God and allow Him to play the major role in our lives we will be amazed at the things He has planned in advance for us to do.
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