Send Me, I’ll Go…If it Lines Up with My Plan!”
How often do you hear people connect God to their Purpose and not the other way around? Today, it is posh to make Plans for Success and then stamp God’s Name on the back page of the plan. Connecting our purpose to God is voluntarily choosing a pencil over a pen, because you realize that at any given moment- God’s Plan may make revisions for what you envisioned!
Purpose is loaded today! Many churches are moving to make their conferences more temporal-minded than eternal-centered. The panelists are lauded as experts in gaining wealth on earth. Their mic drops are based on the knowledge they give you for financial abundance here. Allow me to pause to address the thought to discredit and turn a deaf ear because of where we are going. It goes without much argument that God does not oppose us having temporal belongings, it is the hazard connected to them having us!
God will “give you the desires of your heart.” Do we ever really dissect Psalm 37:4 from the understanding of the word “delight?” Let’s bring the pencil back. Delight in Hebrew is the word, “Anag.” It is to live or spend in enjoyment. As we live in the enjoyment of a Sovereign God having plans for us, we begin to embrace His Plan for our lives! It is the erasure that speaks to us delighting in leaving not just room for God to add, but for Him to totally rewrite. Proverbs 19:21 says, “Many plans are in a man’s mind, But it is the LORD’S purpose for him that will stand (be carried out).” -Amplified
Remember, the Lord stands over His Word to perform it. We have to understand the Times that we are in. There may be many churches with stain-glassed windows that have stain-filled Messages aligning with the World, but make no mistake about it- He is coming back for a church “without spot or wrinkle!” -Ephesians 5:27 Not only are we to be mindful as a Church Body, but also a Body of Believers for presenting the Surrendered Life.
Our Love will be more and more on trial, because when we host our church events, community events, and parties, will the Attendees get the Essentials? Will they be put into remembrance of our Soul Winning more than they are in us being an expert in Purpose Pushing?
“Send me, I’ll go” has to be deeply rooted in a “Yes Lord!” A response that goes beyond knowing the Cost; one that longs more for what God desires than our very own written Plan of Success!
Divine Work & Pray:
Work:
Jot down in your journal your ambitions and what you are doing or have done to see them come to pass. Now, assess whether you wrote those plans with a pencil or a pen. Have you yielded your plans to delighting in what God desires for you.
Pray:
Father, as we find ourselves in between what the world defines as successful and what You attribute to our account because we have chosen Your way- there is no comparison. Keep us in delight of You. May we have an undivided allegiance to You. Our plans are void of true significance without You. Keep us mindful of the essentials. Eternity awaits us. Help us to stay firmly mindful of what You desire of us while we are here on earth. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
