Day 11 What is My Purpose?

 

1/11/2025

"Choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

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Life begins with empty pages until our first cognitive thought or impulse - the beating of our hearts. Yet, God says that He knew us before the foundation of the world. He actually considered everything about each of us. What we'd look like, the color of our eyes, hair, skin, and He hand selected our parents. Psalm 139 says that He knit us together in our mother's womb, fitting all our parts together while we were not even born. He even knew that the umbilical cord would be wrapped around my neck at birth, making delivery difficult for my mother. He has known every one of my days before there were any days, and He knew that I'd love Him and serve Him. He knew every wrong move I would make, how I would struggle for so many years. He knew and knows everything concerning me, and the amazing part is that He chose me for a special purpose, and He wrote about it in His book about me.

"For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." (Psalm 139:13-16).  

I've been reading about the call of Abraham to be the first Hebrew! God chose Abraham to become the father of a nation of people too numerous to count, like the sand in the desert. Abraham blindly followed when God said for him to go, leave his country and travel to a nation he did not know; then Isaac, his son, followed suit obeying God's directions. The stories of their lives are so incredible, and yet this is how God is. He made a covenant with Abraham, who then passed it on to Isaac, then Isaac to Jacob. Jacob becomes the father of the twelve tribes of Israel who enter into the Promised Land God had chosen for them. Each step of the way in the lives of these patriarchs was a deliberate act of obedience and a step of faith. And each step of the way God honored His covenant with them, keeping it through all the generations of those who loved Him. And He continues to do so today. It is too wonderful to imagine. God is serious about His plan for His chosen people.

But, it is also remarkable that Jesus made a way for non-Jewish people, Gentiles, like me, who has accepted His gift of salvation through Jesus to be grafted into the family and inherit the blessings. Never do we take the place of His chosen ones, but we can partake of His blessings. God planned that from the beginning also. Salvation comes through the Jewish nation and salvation has been offered to them first. This is an exciting time as more and more people are opening their eyes to the truth of the gospel, realizing that Messiah has already come and is coming again! What wonderful news to share. That's why we're here - to spread the Good News as Jesus said to His disciples before His ascension. 

"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.' Amen." (Matthew 28:18-20).

We have been placed here to first of all love the LORD our God with all our heart, our soul, our mind, and our strength. Next, we are to love others, esteeming them higher than ourselves. We are to be bold in sharing the gospel with everyone and to live our lives righteously, clothed in humility, showing the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, actions, words, and deeds. None of us are perfect, but as His followers, we are to emulate Christ. Paul the Apostle told the Corinthians to follow him as he followed Christ, and it is the same for us.

Besides that God has given us each spiritual gifts spoken of in 1 Corinthians 12, and we are called to be the "body of Christ" likened to our physical body with different parts, fitted together, functioning as a unit. Scientifically or medically speaking our human bodies are dependent on each part working together as one part, a network of parts working with the others. It's God's creative genius at work right before our eyes. One part is as necessary as another, which is compared to how we function in life, living our unique plan that God ordained that we should walk in. No one's job is more important than another one. But whatever we do, as God's workmanship we are to bring Him glory, honor, and praise in everything we do. That's our number one purpose - to love God and bring Him honor.