The bravery of God in trusting us! The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator. Yet many times I bemoan my own incompetence. Like Paul, who says he is the least worthy of the apostles, who am not fit or deserving to be called an apostle, I do have my pangs of insecurities and doubts.
Jesus Christ's life was an absolute failure from every standpoint but God's. Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death; He led every one of them to the place where their hearts were broken. But what seemed failure from man's standpoint was an emphatic triumph from God's, because God's purpose is never man's purpose.
"… And they understood none of these things."- Luke 18:34
Seems so for the baffling call of God in our lives too. The call of God is like the call of the sea; no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. The test is really to trust and to believe that God knows what He is after. The things that happen do not happen by chance, they happen entirely in the decree of God. God is working out His purposes.
I believe in a divinity to shapes our end. But who can grasp this truth? As we go on in the Christian life, we are inclined to say,” Why did God allow this and that?" But the thing is when we recognize that He is taking us into His purposes; we shall no longer try to find out what His purposes are. A Christian is one who trusts the wits and the wisdom of God, and not his own wits.
"For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome." - Jeremiah 29:11
There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all costs, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life. Amen.
"His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain." - 1 Cor 15:10
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