Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done (Luke 22.42)
We should not imagine, were we always to know God’s outcome for our personal life plan and meaningful ministry, that we would necessarily be excited by or want to pursue it.
We need to distinguish between the purpose of God and the specifics of how these purposes might be outworked in our life. The Biblical prophetic voice majors on the purposes and fine-tunes with the specifics for our personal lives – hence ‘fortune telling’ about the future is neither a healthy concern nor focus for us.
Christian life goals should not simply be about outcomes. What should be of more concern to us are the ‘drivers’ of our life – the ‘who’, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of life. The outcome is up to God. Sometimes He will reveal it. But often He will not. So let’s get on with it now.
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- 'Christian faith is purposeful participation in the life, ministry & victory of Jesus Christ'
- Married to Jennifer & serving together in full-time Church ministry since 1980. Committed to the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures. Influenced by Reformed, Orthodox, Catholic mystics, Anabaptists, Pietists, Puritans and Pentecostals and baptistic to the core! So thankful for Jesus, seeking to follow Him and inviting you to explore these pages to find out more about the exciting beauty of worshipping God through becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.