Pressing
Towards Purpose
Tuesday,
March 24, 2020
10:17 AM
There seems to be
constant lull I seem to experience on regular basis. I find contentment with
doing different things very often and at the same token find pure
discontentment when things are not as stable as I wish them to be.
Im beginning to
believe that the reason why this is because I am not in my place of purpose. I
can remember very vividly the feelings of discomfort that I would fight through
to make sure I was right for the children I served. This energy was absent and is absent today
because I am doing something I feel it totally unrelated.
But I know better
than to think that small. If God is who he says he is a does what he claims he
does then every single step I take fits in the purpose he has for my life. Even
the missteps and the straying. Somehow God take the things I dislike, am discontented
with, and am full discomforted by to make them fit into the plan he has for my
life.
The closer I get his
heart the clearer these things become and more overwhelmed I get. I am
unaccustomed to such lofty thoughts and rich visions. I am constantly making
the mistake of looking at my hands not his will. Even in this moment my
thoughts are swirling around to how Jesus did much the same when he looked at
his purpose.
35 And Jesus went
about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching
the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among
the people.
36 But when he saw
the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and
were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
37 Then saith he
unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
38 Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Here it is Jesus on
earth seeking out the purpose for which he was sent and he gets to place where
he was MOVED by the circumstances. It affect him at the deepest point of his
soul (so to speak). His response was Pray the Lord to send forth those who would
labor to lead those sheep to the good shepherd.
He saw it could not
just be him alone but it had to be team effort that everyone one who knew the
voice of the shepherd could lead others to the shepherd.
God is not call us
to a way…he is calling people to himself. He is not calling me to a work. He is
calling me to himself. The work is what I am doing as I come to him.
9 For we are labourers together with
God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
10 According to the grace of God which
is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and
another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth
thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made
manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath
built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he
shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of
God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
The softer nuances
associated with this text is this…. V9 says we are laborer together with God
and then says we are his building. V13 goes on to say every mans work will be
made manifest for the day shall declare it…. This reference matches in
intention Jesus language to the crowd when he says at that day or at the last
day.
We will have
journeyed and built things that we will present to the Father for testing. And
if we have listened and followed the Lord will then test it. Another scripture
comes to mind with the same context of forward movement or upward building.
Jesus says whoever
hears these words of mine and does them is like a man who built his HOUSE on
rock and when the winds, rain and storms came beat up on the house it stood
strong. But the man who hears my words and does them not is like a man who
built his HOUSE on sand and when the winds, rain and storms came beat up on the
house it fell and fall was great.
It is divinely set
into mans nature is to build but what and how he builds is based upon what he
hears. The thing man is building is not removed from him it is what he intends
to live in and represent consistently.
The fact continues
to remain is that work that is being done not of my voiltion but of obedience.
I am called up until a communion out of which I work and live and have my
being. May I never forget that it is of my relationship with God that I might
work might works. That it is of a loving relationship of submission and honor
to his Lordship do I live out the the plans he has for my life.
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