Just Built Different | Tuesday
Week 7 | Your Purpose Pieces
Listen instead of reading
Take a Moment
Ask God what He wants to show you before reading today
Read The Daily
That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” (Ephesians 2:10)
One of the phrases I love is when people say, “they are just built different”. I like the concept of not going with the flow or doing something nobody else would have done. I also think it sounds tough. However, I also believe that we were all built and made for a purpose. I think there is a fundamental Biblical truth: You were created with God’s purpose in mind. And until you discover his purpose for you—and follow through on it—there will always be a hole in your soul.
Ephesians above says that you are God’s workmanship. Do you know what that means? It means you are the product of God’s vision. God has decided what you could be and should be. And through Christ He has brought about, and continues to bring about, changes in you in accordance with his picture of what you could and should be. But his vision for you is not complete simply because God has the vision. It has to be made into a reality. So you have a crucial part in it. As Paul says, you have been crafted to do good works. The particular works God has in mind for you are important and are different from the ones he has in mind for me or for anyone else.
Honestly, I can’t get over the fact that the God of the universe has something in mind for us to do. After all, doesn’t he have other things to think about? But the apostle Paul assures us that God has prepared something specific for us to do. This means you and I have no right to live visionless lives. If God has a vision for what we are to do with our allotment of years, we had better get in on it, don’t you think? What a tragedy it would be to miss it!
God’s vision for you is what you were “built” for. And more than that, his individual vision for your life is a small part of a grand plan for the universe that he envisioned and put in motion long before you or I came on the scene. I’m not exaggerating one bit when I say that your vision came from eternity past and fulfilling it will have effects lasting into eternity future.
Prayer for the Day
God what are you showing me? What am I going to do about it?
God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?
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