This beautiful passage is not a love letter addressed to
this person or that believer. It is a
beautiful love story penned directly to the name in the front of your own
personal Bible. The words in your Book
are as personable as you make them, and as applicable as you live by them. If you are breathing God means this passage
for you. Not only did He think upon us
before we existed but with His very hands and breath created us into existence.
If that wasn’t enough He assigned us a purpose in this life more than just
walking it out. He tells us that every
one of us has been appointed as a prophet.
The translation for prophet is ‘one who has been called’. That puts all
of us and our lives on the hook for living out what God originally planned for
our lives. Ephesians 2:10 echoes this
Old Testament reality. ‘But we are God’s workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to
do.’ God created us with special
strengths and talents, but it isn’t activated in power and purpose until we have
been created a second time by believing and accepting in Christ.
Every experience in our lives builds into a spiritual
crescendo when strung together for the benefit of others. ‘If
you are a child of God, you have a ministry.
Your ministry is the ever-accruing collection of your life works for the
glory of God…it’s the means by which you live out your divine purpose’
Children of the Day, Beth Moore, p. 142.
It is such a blessing to blog because I can clearly see future ministry
births by recognizing the labor pains.
When I write about those faithful women who have experienced infertility
my blog is blown up with awesome testimonies about how they persevered. When I write about my own cancer walk with my
sister and dad, the comments go on and on about the faithfulness of God in their
grief. Labor pains…spiritual
contractions…future births.
We are not to experience our pain and suffering for
nothing. Every experience that life
throws our way will be used by God to build foundations for future service…good
works…callings to be walked out. It is
our responsibility to look over our past lives and connect the spiritual dots
with our present lives. God will be
faithful in shaping your future for His calling when we open His word and expect
His revelations.
‘Now to each one
the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good…All these are the
work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he
determines’ 1 Co. 12:7, 11. ‘And whatever you do, whether in word or
deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through him’ Co. 12:17. ‘See to it that you complete the work you
have received in the Lord’ Co.
4:18.
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