I'm sure you have heard this many times in your life. Maybe long before you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, one came up to you and gave you this message. Or maybe, after a couple of years you have your walk with Christ.
Jesus had called His disciples to follow Him, a very simple call. And at that moment, you began a very trusting relationship with your Savior. You don't know where you are going, but you know for sure that you are with Christ, the only way, truth, and life.
Whether you are tall, skinny, grew beard, have long hair, dark, or simply the opposites, God has a plan for you.
But first, we have to believe that God has a call for your life. Some people don't care about knowing God's plan in their life, they are too consumed with their own planning. However, for those who believe with all their heart, soul, and mind that God is their life focus, God will call your name like he did to Samuel, or Cephas.
John the baptist introduced his disciples to Christ, "Behold the Lamb of God!" (Jn 1:36). And the disciples followed Him.
Paul encourages the believers in his letter of Roman:
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
(Romans 12:1-2)
He is saying to the believers that God has plan for their lives, and the only way to know or prove that is by setting your mind to Christ, and less on your own goals or achievements.
God has laid everything out through Christ, and when Christ has said, "It is finished." It truly means that it is finished. The whole plan has been laid out, John in the last chapter of revelation clearly describes howGod is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last (v.13) He is our plan from the beginning until the end. And in verse 14, the angel ministered to John saying, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."
To conclude this message, I believe that to know God's plan for our lives, is to simply obey Him, and follow Him (action) in the Spirit. Whether it means to read and meditate on His words day and night, or to be obedience to His words even when it means to be outside of our comfort zone.
It is very encouraging to see our brothers and sisters in Christ who have gone before us into the ministry of Christ. One example is Nicky Cruz, from his book "One Holy Fire", Nicky Cruz mentions about the importance of seeing people as God sees them. He quoted from 1 John 3:17:
"But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?"
And Isaiah 58:6-7,9-10:"Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:"
So, to me, God's plan for our lives does not have to be that complicated as to what country, what ministry, or what age. Many probably would agree with me that as we simply obey His Spirit, we are already in His plan, and soon or later, we found ourselves working along side with our brothers and sisters in Christ ministering to the Lost, the Blind, or the Lame."If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit"(Galatians 5:25)
