“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10
Do you feel capable of doing great things? You are, with Christ’s help. Though we may never reach our financial goals, though most of us won’t ever be famous, God does have GREAT BIG plans for us–bigger than we can imagine. What those plans are will differ for each of us, of course, and some will be more “high-profile” than others, but if we follow Christ’s plan for our lives, we will accomplish great things. A better way to put that, I suppose, is that Christ will accomplish great things through us, if only we’ll let him.
Some people think the Christian life is suppose to be easy, but it’s not. We are guaranteed happiness, but not necessarily in this life here on earth. Being Christian will be hard. God doesn’t promise a life without pain, and probably a lot of very uncomfortable, inconvenient things! There is a saying that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle. But I think a better way to put that is that God won’t ask us do to anything that he isn’t willing to walk through with us.
A beautiful song called “Ruin Me” was performed today at church, and part of the lyrics said this:
Some people think the Christian life is suppose to be easy, but it’s not. We are guaranteed happiness, but not necessarily in this life here on earth. Being Christian will be hard. God doesn’t promise a life without pain, and probably a lot of very uncomfortable, inconvenient things! There is a saying that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle. But I think a better way to put that is that God won’t ask us do to anything that he isn’t willing to walk through with us.
A beautiful song called “Ruin Me” was performed today at church, and part of the lyrics said this:
“Ruin my life, the plans I have made
Ruin desires for my own selfish gain,
Destroy the idols that have taken Your place,
‘Til its You alone I live for.”
We like to make our own plans, and we tend to resist when God’s plans don’t look like our own. Sometimes his plans are a whole lot harder. But he’s known the plans he has for us from the beginning of time, and they are a whole lot bigger than our own plans. May God ruin the plans I have made, and may his plans be accomplished through me.
