Born to Greatness...
At DEC weekly Bible Study we are just finishing "The Purpose Driven Life" by Pastor Ric Warren. In his book Pastor Ric sets about to have the reader answer one primary question: "What on Earth [Are You] Here For?" Have you thought about it? Why did God create you?... In our contemporary society most people ask God to bless their plans, their marriages, jobs, finances and so on. It's a very superficial way to connect with a creative God. Thinking it's all about us! If He made us, then, like every other thing in the universe -- we were created with purpose. He has definite plans for us as stated in the Isaiah passage above ... Recently I came across a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: " The years teach much the days never know."...
Most of us get so caught up in our daily lives that it's hard to step back and see the bigger picture. We forget or don't realize we were born with purpose. Moses breaks the idea down in a very extraordinary way in the 90th Psalm. He says:
" Lord, Though has been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God (v.1-2)... A thousand years in Thy sight are like yesterday when it passes by (v.4) ...As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty...(v.10).
In other words we have an approximate amount of time to figure out our purpose and get on with it. [With that understanding Moses continues] "So then teach us to number our days aright, so that we may present to You a heart of wisdom"12)... "Let Your favor be upon us; and do
confirm for us the work of our hands -- yes, establish for us the work of our hands." Psalm (v.17)
So then, according to Moses, if we will ask God to teach us purpose. We can get about the business of perfecting our gifts and callings and living in the fullness of His blessings for us. Instead of bumping around for years starting and stopping this and that. Never feeling quite fulfilled, because we never discover what our call is. Or, we wait until we are too old to have the strength to finish our earthly assignment... Remember one day you and I will have to give and accounting to God about what we did with our time on earth. Are you walking in your purpose? I challenge you to spend some time in prayer and thinking about what you are good at. Then devoting some serious time (years even) perfecting your talents, and see won't God give you the desires of your heart...
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