If some one could have asked me a question of this kind before I came to the understanding of the mercies and the plans of God "What is the purpose of your creation" I guess I could have answered them To be a good obedient son to my earthly father, graze his cows and see them multiply in other words to MAKE MY EARTHLY FATHER HAPPY. May be you could have said to go through school successfully and get all those degrees in secular institutions of learning, and able to develop this world of ours! There could have been many answers to this question.
Like all of you our understanding and focus changed when we come to know the saving graces of Jesus, We come to know that we were created for a single reason which is TO PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OUR LORD GOD! Isaiah 43:21. Yea, that's it the only reason me and you are alive is to be vessels and proclaim the praises of our God.
Do not say who Am I to proclaim the goodness of God, Do not look down on yourself and let the enemy use your past to keep you chained, Do not say but I am not a Saint! I am a Sinner! I am weak, how can I proclaim the Praises of God! That is what the devil uses to keep us bound in our former sins, and thoughts, do not let Satan keep you in his prison our guilty, Yes I have decided to refuse it too, Actually let's look at a few verses in the same chapter
Isaiah 43: 18-19 (KJV) Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
God has done a new thing in our lives let's not be ignorant and fail to realize it! You are not the old you, Don't confuse me with the Jean de Dieu that you saw yesterday and I will not confuse you with the YOU that I knew then, We are all made new each morning the more we seek to please God the more we change to be like him. Yes the earthly/unbelievers may confuse you with the world, that is what happened when they crucified our Lord Jesus! Can you imagine nailing the Lord of Lords on the cross and let free Barabbas (the criminal)? They did not recognize the Prince of Peace, and they can hardly recognize you the New Creature. But I urgue you to know who you are in Christ and what you are here to do.I pray for all of you that God will help us wake up and serve the purpose of our creation, I am sure the Lord who started the good work in you will definitely bring it to completion.
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