God has plans for each of us. Paul knew that God wanted to use him to further His Kingdom. He accepted the plan and made good on the purpose God placed in him.
We are no different. Sometimes we may fail to fully recognize His purpose and plan for us. We may decide His plan is not the path we want to take and completely ignore His calling. We may dibble-dabble in it at times and find enormous peace about doing His will only to slip away and let fear consume us.
But the calling never leaves. It sits there waiting. Longing for us to pick it back up to do that absolute best thing we could ever do. Obey God.
He provides the grace and the mercy. It all comes from Him. There is nothing more we could need when we are in the midst of His will. Complete sufficiency. Beyond abundant provision. Sweet fellowship.
But the world jumps in. Desperately seeking to devour us, to keep us from living in the space God has for us. Instead we find ourselves withering in that space because we listen to lies and believe them. And begin to turn away from that space of peace. Oh, that sacred space of peace!!!
If you have ever had it, you know it. If you have ever had it, you want it again. If you have ever had it, you long for it more than a big refreshing gulp of cold water in the middle of August in South Georgia. Y’all know what I mean!!!
In Philippians 1, Paul makes the realization that to stay on in the flesh requires fruitful labor. No different for you and me.
And then in 1 Timothy 1, he proclaims Who put him into service. The service is not man-made, but Divinely appointed.
What are you doing? I don’t really need to know. But you do.
Are you living in the knowledge that the service you “do” is not your own? Here again, I don’t need to know. But you do.
Do you know Who placed it in you to do that which gets done every day? And is that which gets done that which you were called to do?
Seek Him and know that His plans for you are already appointed. He desires your willingness to do His plans. And there we find sweet peace.
