1 Thessalonians 5:24 “The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.”
What God calls you to do, He empowers you to do. With the plan comes every resource that we will need to accomplish that plan.
For many years I was unsure of my purpose and mission in life. I tried and often succeeded in filling every waking moment with activity. Oh, it was wonderful activity filled with good things – but they were not the best things, the highest things for my life. I just did them in order to feel important. I hoped that all this activity would provide a purpose and plan for the restlessness in my soul.
Sitting at the bottom of a deep, dark pit named “Clinical Depression”, I discovered a truth that has redefined who I am and altered my soul perception of God. I now realize that the most powerful mission flows from a clear life plan.
How do we discover our life plan?
By spending time with the Plan Maker. By saturating daily life with His truth and continually turning our hearts to conversation with Him. When we spend time with Him the plan naturally unfolds as we take every “next step” in obedience.
- What are your spiritual gifts?
- What are you passionate about?
- What are your natural abilities?
- What is your personality type?
- What are the spiritual markers in your life?
- What do others see in you?
I began to ask these questions, looking for the gifts He has given me instead of the ones I thought I should have or wanted to have. I began to accept my limitations knowing that He had woven them into the seams of my journey for my good. I began trusting Him to lead the way through this foreign land called life. Guess what? I looked around one day to find myself smack-dab in the middle of His life plan for me. It was suddenly so simple and amazingly clear! I am learning to say “no” to those things that do not fit into that life mission. Certainly, I fail and have to begin again. And sometimes I am misunderstood because I have chosen to follow God’s plan instead of someone else’s. But I would rather be misunderstood than disobedient. I had to choose a new audience and so must you! I had to make a decision about the One I wanted to please and so must you.
Today I know who I am and where I am going! I’ve discovered that the secret of “doing it all” is not doing it all! It is finding which part of “all” He has given us to do and then doing all of that! In other words, find out what His plan is and stick to it, knowing that it is guaranteed by God Himself.
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