Have you ever heard the expression "God has a great plan for your life"? I believe this to be true but this is often misinterpreted . Trying to fulfill your dreams or what you believe to be God's dreams for you, can impose a burden and disappointment beyond repair.
I believe it is God's perfect will to bless us, His children, with a happy and joyous life. Sometimes we interpret "God's perfect will" to be something that it is not. We may invision a ministry like Billy Graham's or Benny Hinn's when in fact it may be to do something much less glorious and notable. What is notable and truly great in God's eyes is much different than how the majority of the people in the world sees greatness.
God has created us with particular giftings and personalities. He, as the master painter, reserves the right to use our lives, as various colors, to paint the ultimate masterpiece.He has a plan for all of us in His great Kingdom. We must seek Him and find out what that plan is. This is what makes me great-it's doing what He wants me to do! He simply asks for our cooperation (trust and obedience). We then fulfill His will for our lives and this is the GREAT plan. We are His children and we are also ambassadors in this world, representing His kingdom and working for Him in whatever way He sees fit. JESUS IS LORD!
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"Trying to fulfill your dreams or what you believe to be God's dreams for you, can impose a burden and disappointment beyond repair."
ReplyDeleteWow, that hits home with me!Having been called into an art ministry I'll catch myself over-burdaned and disappointed (at myself) because somrthing didn't work out the way I thought it should (for God)...I always seem to make God's "simple" calling on my life difficult! By "simple" I mean, when He called me He equipped me...He reqiures little of me (that's the hard part)to put Him FIRST, stay in THE WORD and PAINT, he'll do the rest. When I feel myself getting "too involved" I have to step down...we both can't drive, plus as long as I'm "driving" I don't know where we're going..---"Unto Thee I Surrender"
Lorna Effler
www.revelationart.org